[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Israel Wants World to Have $100/Barrel Oil In March 2006

[Morton K. Brussel]

Denial.  --mkb

Published on Friday, December 16, 2005 by Reuters
Most Israelis Oppose Strike Against Iran: Poll


Most Israelis oppose a military strike against Iran's nuclear program  
for now, despite fears in the Jewish state that Iran is getting  
closer to building an atom bomb, a poll showed on Friday.

Israel and the United States accuse Iran of trying to produce nuclear  
weapons, but Tehran denies this. Recent comments by Iranian President  
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel should be removed from the Middle  
East have added to regional tension.

A survey in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said 58 percent of the 510  
Israelis polled believed the dispute over Iran's atomic program  
should be handled diplomatically, while 36 percent said its reactor  
should be destroyed in a military strike.

Israel says Tehran will by March have the know-how to make a nuclear  
bomb and may be able to produce one within three years. Prime  
Minister Ariel Sharon has said global pressure to halt Iran's nuclear  
program should continue.

Israel denied a report in Britain's Sunday Times last week that it  
was planning a strike against Iran's nuclear reactor in March, saying  
it preferred to let foreign diplomatic pressure on Tehran run its  
course.

But a senior Israeli official said future military action against  
Iran's nuclear program was not being ruled out. Israel, which is  
thought to possess the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, bombed a  
nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1981.

Asked how Iran would respond to an Israeli military attack, Iranian  
Defense Minister Mohammad Najjar said: "Iran's response will be  
swift, strong and devastating," the official IRNA news agency  
reported on Friday.

Copyright © 2005 Reuters Limited

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