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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: October 23, 2007 |
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Israel's Ambassador to the US, Sallai Meridor, declared Monday that Israel should always be prepared "to preempt, to deter, to defeat if we can" grave threats to the Jewish state, among them the possibility of a nuclear Iran, according to the Jerusalem Post.
"This will take a united United States on this matter, that they would not have the illusion today that come January '09, they [Teheran] have it their own way," he said, referring to President George W. Bush's successor, who would be able to shift US policy towards the Islamic republic.
Meridor said "very little time" remained to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
"There may be a third way still, but only if the diplomatic and economic steps could be dramatically - not incrementally - dramatically intensified," he said, adding that 33 percent of Iran's trade is with Europe.
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