Attack on Iran “Unavoidable”; Iran “Would Disappear BEFORE Israel Does” – Shaul Mofaz
THE GUARDIAN: An Israeli minister has said an attack on Iran's nuclear sites will be "unavoidable" if Tehran refuses to halt its alleged weapons programme.

In the most explicit threat yet by a member of Ehud Olmert's government, Shaul Mofaz, a deputy prime minister, said the hardline Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "would disappear before Israel does".

"If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective," Mofaz, who is also Israel's transport minister, said in comments published today by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

"Attacking Iran in order to stop its nuclear plans will be unavoidable." 'Unavoidable' Attack on Iran Looms, Says Israeli Minister >>> By Haroon Siddique and agencies | June 6, 2008

BBC:
Israeli Minister Threatens Iran >>> June 6, 2008

BBC:
Analysis: Growing Talk of Iran Attack >>> By Jeremy Bowen | June 6, 2008

THE GUARDIAN:
Israeli Threat to Attack Iran over Nuclear Weapons >>> By Ian Black, Middle East editor | June 7, 2008

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Debate in White House over Approach to Iran Intensifies
NEW YORK TIMES: WASHINGTON, June 15 — A year after President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced a new strategy toward Iran, a behind-the-scenes debate has broken out within the administration over whether the approach has any hope of reining in Iran’s nuclear program, according to senior administration officials.

The debate has pitted Ms. Rice and her deputies, who appear to be winning so far, against the few remaining hawks inside the administration, especially those in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office who, according to some people familiar with the discussions, are pressing for greater consideration of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.

In the year since Ms. Rice announced the new strategy for the United States to join forces with Europe, Russia and China to press Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, Iran has installed more than a thousand centrifuges to enrich uranium. The International Atomic Energy Agency predicts that 8,000 or so could be spinning by the end of the year, if Iran surmounts its technical problems. Strategy on Iran Stirs New Debate at White House (more) By Helene Cooper and David E. Sanger

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Kuwait Prepared for Any US-Iran Conflict
KUWAIT: The government yesterday briefed the National Assembly's foreign relations committee of its preparations for a possible US-Iran military confrontation, but politicians played down such a possibility. The meeting was attended by ministers in the government emergency team, headed by Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and several MPs. Each minister explained to the committee the preparations they have taken in case a war breaks out between the United States and Iran over its nuclear programme. Kuwait prepared for any US-Iran war(more) By B Izzak

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