ft.com - 4/2/2009
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Robert Gates, US defence secretary, has said Israel is unlikely to attack Iran this year to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Gates said there was still enough time to persuade Iran to abandon what is widely perceived to be a nuclear ...
theatlantic.com - 3/31/2009
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theatlantic.com —
Or I Will In an interview conducted shortly
before he was sworn in today as prime minister...
of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and quickly ...
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Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will - The ...
bloomberg.com - 4/1/2009
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bloomberg.com —
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Israel might choose to
attack Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear...
bomb, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said today. Army General David Petraeus told Congress that “the Israeli government may ultimately see ...
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Petraeus Says Israel Might Choose to Attack Iran (Update2)
jpost.com - 4/1/2009
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jpost.com —
New Balad party MK Haneen Zuabi, the first
woman to be elected to the Knesset as a...
representative of an Arab party, has welcomed Iran's growing influence on Palestinian affairs and praised Iran's quest for a nuclear weapon as a means of offsetting ...
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New Balad MK praises Iran's nuke quest | Israel | ...
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Lurking Defense Secretary Provides Adult Supervision and Stabilizes Obama National Security Team
The Washington Note —
... Secondly, as Demetri Sevastopulo has just written in an important Financial Times piece, Gates is pushing newly sworn in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back on Iran. ...
Steve Clemons: Lurking Defense Secretary Provides Adult Supervision and Stabilizes Obama National Security Team
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Secondly, as Demetri Sevastopulo has just written in an important Financial Times piece, Gates is pushing newly sworn in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back on Iran. ...
Gates Pushing Back on Iran War Fever
Matthew Yglesias —
... that any diplomatic approach to Iran had to produce results very quickly or else it should be abandoned in favor of punitive measures. Then Bibi Netanyahu told Obama that unless diplomacy produced results in a few months that Israel would strike away. And CFR Senior Fellow, Bush NSC veteran, and Iran-Contra crook Elliot Abrams tried to assure us that the Iranian people would welcome airstrikes.
Steve Clemons observes that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is offering some pushback:
Mr Gates said he does not expect Israel - which ...
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