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"We say we are not removing any option from the table. We have a tendency to hope for a heroic operation that will end everything, as with the bombing of the Iraqi reactor in 1981," Barak explained about the Israeli stance on Iran's long-running nuclear dispute.
However, the Israeli official drew a line between the "Iraqi threat" and the "Iranian threat" by portraying the Iranian one as much graver.
"In the Iraqi case there was one target that existed and was working, and a surgical strike eliminated it... Here we are up against something far more complex, sophisticated and extensive," he said.
WASHINGTON – President Shimon Peres, who is scheduled to visit the United States next week in order to attend the annual AIPAC meeting, will meet with US President Barack Obama on Monday.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has declared that influential Israeli lobby groups are preventing any change from occurring in the US.
"Israeli lobby groups' influence over decision-making bodies in the US will not allow any real change to be made in US foreign policy,” Larijani said in a meeting with a Washington Friday prayers leader, Faisal Rauf, in Tehran on Tuesday.
Originally posted by Retseh
Iran says that Israel should be wiped off the map and you all twiddle your anti-semitic thumbs.
Israel says that Iran is a threat and you're all jumping up to yell "warmonger !!".
Do you people seriously believe that a nuclear armed Iran poses no threat to Israel?
Originally posted by Retseh
Iran says that Israel should be wiped off the map and you all twiddle your anti-semitic thumbs.
Israel says that Iran is a threat and you're all jumping up to yell "warmonger !!".
Do you people seriously believe that a nuclear armed Iran poses no threat to Israel?
Sohrab Mahdavi, one of Iran’s most prominent translators, and Siamak Namazi, managing director of a Tehran consulting firm, who is bilingual, both say “wipe off” or “wipe away” is more accurate than "vanish" because the Persian verb is active and transitive.