Press TV
Saturday, August 30, 2008
An Israeli government committee is preparing a contingency plan to attack Iran, should diplomatic efforts fail to derail Iran’s nuclear program, Israel’s daily Ma’ariv reports.
Ephraim Sneh, an Israeli Labor Party lawmaker, has sent an eight-point document to both US presidential candidates, saying “There is no government in Jerusalem that would ever reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran.”
“When it is clear Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons, an Israeli military strike to prevent this will be seriously considered,” the document says.
Sneh has suggested that the opportunity to find a non-military solution to halt Iran’s nuclear program will cease within 18 to 24 months.
Israel which is the only possessor of a nuclear arsenal in the Middle East region and has not yet joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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Iran warns any attack would start ‘world war’
AFP
Saturday, Aug 30, 2008
A senior Iranian military commander has warned that any US or Israeli attack on the Islamic republic would start a world war, the state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.
“Any aggression against Iran will start a world war,” deputy chief of staff for defence publicity, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, said in a statement carried by the agency.
Iran is under international pressure to halt uranium enrichment, a process which lies at the core of fears about Iran’s nuclear programme as it can make nuclear fuel as well as the fissile core of an atom bomb.
“The unrestrained greed of the US leadership and global Zionism… is gradually leading the world to the edge of a precipice,” Jazayeri said, citing the unrest in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Georgia.
“It is evident that if such a challenge occurs, the fake and artificial regimes will be eliminated before anything,” he said, without naming any countries.
Iran does not recognise Israel, which is often described by officials in Tehran as a “fake regime.”
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Abdullah II: Israel can’t defeat Iran
Press TV
Saturday, Aug 30, 2008
Jordan warns against a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying Tel Aviv is not capable of defeating Tehran.
“An attack against Iran would provoke reprisals and Israel doesn’t have the capability to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites”, says the King of Jordan.
“Iranians assert that their nuclear program has no military nature and an American report, which was published recently, apparently recognizes their claim,” said King Abdullah II in an interview with French magazine L’Express.
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) said in September 2007 that Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons. Yet the Bush administration, ignoring the country’s NIE’s conclusion, claims that Iran’s nuclear program poses a “threat” to Europe and the United States.
King Abdullah hinted at Iran’s increasing power and influence in the Middle East and said, “What Tehran wants to tell us, I think, is that Iran is an important player in the region and that we should note it well”.
The King of Jordan said his country hopes that there would be no military intervention against Iran as such a move would bear dire consequences for the whole region.
“All the countries in the region will pay the price for such a situation,” he concluded.
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