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Purveyor

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Wed Sep 18, 2013, 07:21 PM Sep 2013

Netanyahu To Focus On Iranian Nuclear Threat At U.N.

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Tuesday that he would focus on halting Iran’s nuclear program in a meeting with President Obama in Washington at the end of the month and in his annual speech before the United Nations General Assembly, using the Syria situation to increase pressure for a “credible military threat.

Repeating a four-step formula he has been urging for months, Mr. Netanyahu told his cabinet that Iran must stop enriching uranium, remove enriched uranium from the country, close its nuclear plant near Qum and stop what he called “the plutonium track.”

“Until all four of these measures are achieved, the pressure on Iran must be increased and not relaxed, and certainly not eased,” the prime minister said in a statement released by his office.

Mr. Netanyahu, who is scheduled to meet with Mr. Obama on Sept. 30, said recent developments regarding Syria’s chemical weapons had “confirmed the assumptions” that guided Israel’s policy.

“A recalcitrant state that develops or acquires weapons of mass destruction is certainly likely to use them,” he said. “Only a credible military threat can allow diplomacy or other steps to effect a halt to this armament process.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/world/middleeast/netanyahu-to-focus-on-iranian-nuclear-threat-at-un.html?_r=0

I do so hope he brings along some more silly 'props' so he can again demonstrate what a goddamned fool he is...


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Go home, Netanyahu, you're drunk. nt Fantastic Anarchist Sep 2013 #1
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