Report: Iran moving along on ability to build nuclear weapons
Iran has moved further along in its ability to build nuclear weapons, according to some diplomats.
Iran has moved further along in its ability to build nuclear weapons, according to some diplomats.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said that the United States “would not permit Iran to be armed with a nuclear weapon.”
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon fears that mixed messages are leading Iran to believe it does not face a real military threat from the outside world.
Gabi Ashkenazi, the former Israeli military chief of staff, said that the threat to Israel from a nuclear Iran was not imminent.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to attend a summit meeting of leaders of non-aligned developing nations in Tehran next week, defying calls from the United States and Israel to boycott the event, U.N. diplomats said on Wednesday.
When the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad compares Israel to a cancer, I take it personally.
Israel\’s economy would incur damages of as much as 167 billion shekels ($42 billion) should Israel attack Iran over its nuclear program, business information group BDI-Coface has projected.
Israel\’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, said Iran targeted his embassy.
President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly clashed over the possibility of a strike against Iran\’s nuclear facilities on Thursday, with Netanyahu aides reportedly saying that Peres had \”forgotten the role of a president in the State of Israel.\”
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Thursday came out against any go-it-alone Israeli attack on Iran, saying he trusted U.S. President Barack Obama\’s pledge to prevent Tehran from producing nuclear weapons.