Israel: "all options" open after Iran talks fail

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Israel: "all options" open after Iran talks fail

JERUSALEM | Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:21pm EDT

(Reuters) - Israel responded on Wednesday to a lack of progress in talks aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program by demanding that the West impose stiffer economic sanctions on Tehran and hinting anew that a military option was still on the table.

Six world powers and Iran failed to secure a breakthrough at talks in Moscow this week, the third round under the latest diplomatic initiative, and set no date for more political negotiations.

"It is time for the United States and Western powers to impose more severe sanctions in the oil embargo and financial sectors in order to stop Iran's nuclear development program," Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz of the centrist Kadima party said in a written statement after talks in Washington with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Mofaz, a former defense minister and military chief, said that in addition to economic steps there was a need "to continue to prepare all other options", an oblique suggestion that a military attack to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon remained a possible course of action.

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[oberliner]

1. Any prediction?

Do you think a military strike is forthcoming?

[WCGreen]

2. If I was in the Russian ruling class...

I would work toward eliminating nuclear weapons, especially with all that religious fever right there on the border...

Really, when you come down to it, the only thing Russia and Iran have in common is a deep hatred of the US.

[DonCoquixote]

3. not even that

Because while Russia dislikes the right, they do like the left, and they have more in common with us than iran, simply because they know that Iran has probably slipped a bit of money to the Chechnyans and other like minded people right on their border.