Jerusalem – Netanyahu, Trying To Re-Focus World’s Attention On Iran

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, Israel, 14 July 2013 . EPA/ABIR SULTAN / POOLJerusalem – With the world’s attention having shifted over the last few weeks to Egypt and Syria, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is trying to bring it back to Iran, telling the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday that a month after Iran’s elections the Islamic republic continues to “quickly sail forward” toward nuclear capability.

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According to Netanyahu, Iran is expanding and improving its uranium enrichment capabilities, and in parallel is also developing a plutonium reactor so it will have two tracks to create material for a nuclear weapon. At the same time, he said Tehran is also expanding its ballistic missile capabilities.

“We believe that now, more than ever, it is important to stiffen the economic sanctions and present Iran with a credible military option,” he said.

“We are determined to stand firm by our demands [on Iran], which must become the demands of the international community,” he said. “First, to cease all enrichment. Second, to remove from the country all the enriched uranium. And thirdly, to close the illegal nuclear facility at Qom.”

Israel’s demands are harsher than those of the international community, which – through the so called P5+1 that includes the US, Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain — has indicated that Iran needs to cease enriching uranium to 20%, and could keep some of the stockpiles of uranium enriched to a lesser degree inside the country.

Soon after Iran elected Hassan Rouhani as president last month, Netanyahu warned the world not to be “taken in” by his more moderate rhetoric and demeanor, but to continue applying pressure on Iran. The concern in Jerusalem was, and continues to be, that the world – viewing Rouhani as a moderate – will soften its sanctions in order to “give him a chance.”

Netanyahu is expected to stress the need to keep the pressure on Rouhani during an interview later in the day on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday news talk show.

Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post


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Yaakov2
Yaakov2
10 years ago

Talk is cheap.

Whom does Netanyahu think he is fooling or scarring with his cheap talk?

Let Netanyahu make an actual strike against Iran (as he did on July 5 in Syria) to show them he means business and then later he can Bark some more and then the world will perhaps take him more seriously.

Until Netanyahu is actually ready to fulfill his failed promises to strike Iran after they cross his “Red Line” (which they crossed countless months ago), Netanyahu remains an international clown who keeps threatening, does nothing against Iran and of course no one takes him seriousely – not Iran, not the USA and not anyone else in the world.