Israel raises profile in Iran fray

[54anickel]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0428/p01s02-wome.html

JERUSALEM – Amid the soaring rhetoric over Western efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program, Israel has been moving into a more proactive position in the campaign to contain Tehran.

This week, Israel launched a satellite to spy on Iran, and its leaders have called on the international community to stop that country from acquiring nuclear weapons. It also accused Tehran of backing Palestinian terrorists.

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"The Israelis are making a statement that Israel has its own ways and means of defending itself," says Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born Middle East analyst based in Tel Aviv.

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What I do worry about in this whole process," he adds, "is that there will be some unexplained incident that happens deliberately or not deliberately, that will be perceived wrongly by one side or the other - that's how WWI got started."

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[cantstandbush]

1. If the US and Israel keep on saying that Iran is building nuke weapons,

Iran will have no choice but to do so. Iran is only tyring to defend itself from Israel and the US who have already showed a history for invading and attacking other countries...unprovoked.

[Karmakaze]

2. LOL

Not long ago, some people here were insisting that Israel and the Israel Lobby were NOT pushing for an attack on Iran because it "would not be in Israel's interest". They said that this proved that Israel and the Israel Lobby had little influence over US policy.

Well, there goes that theory...

[mom cat]

3. And what about Isreal's nukes?