Israel, All options open to hit Iran nuclear-plant

Israel, All options open to hit Iran nuclear-plant, HELD AL-QUDS: Israel is not ruling out any option in how to deal with Iran’s nuclear programme, a senior official said on Monday after Russia’s president said he had been assured the Jewish state would not launch a military strike.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made the comments in an interview with US television, excerpts of which were released by the Kremlin on Sunday.

“When Israeli President (Shimon) Peres was visiting me in Sochi recently, he said something very important for all of us: ‘Israel does not plan any strikes on Iran, we are a peaceful country and we will not do this’,” he said.

Peres’s office declined to comment on the remarks on Monday.

But Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon reiterated what Israeli leaders have said repeatedly — that the Jewish state was keeping all options open when it comes to its archfoe.

“All options remain on the table,” Ayalon was quoted as saying by his spokesman. “It is certainly not a guarantee.”

Widely considered the Middle East’s sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel along with the West suspects Iran of trying to develop atomic weapons under the guise of its nuclear programme, a charge Tehran denies.

Israel considers the Islamic republic its top enemy after repeated statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Jewish state is doomed to be “wiped off the map” and that the Holocaust was a “myth.”

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Israel, All options open to hit Iran nuclear-plant was first posted on September 21, 2009 at 11:36 pm.
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