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Israel to tackle Iran 'alone'

Netanyahu says Tehran is fooling world, slams Rohani

AFP, United Nations
Israel is ready to act "alone" to stop Iran making a nuclear bomb, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday in a hardline warning against rushing into deals with the new leadership inTehran.
“Israel will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone," Netanyahu told a UN summit in a fierce attack on overtures made by Iran's President Hassan Rohani.
Netanyahu linked Rohani, who held a landmark conversation with
US President Barack Obama while in New York last week, to past militant attacks blamed on Iran.
“He fooled the world once. Now he thinks he can fool it again. You see, Rohani thinks he can have his yellow cake and eat it too," Netanyahu said in a speech in which he demanded that sanctions be maintained.
Last year Netanyahu used a cartoon drawing of a bomb to illustrate his warning at the UN that Iran was close to the nuclear bomb threshold.
There was no repeat this time, but Iran immediately condemned Netanyahu's comments as "saber-rattling" and renewed its denial of Western accusations that it seeks a nuclear bomb.
"1 wish I could believe Rohani. But I don't," Netanyahu said.
"Iran wants to be in a position to rush forward to build nuclear bombs before the international community can detect it and much less prevent it," he alleged.
A nuclear-armed Iran would be a bigger threat than North Korea, Netanyahu added.
Netanyahu gave a stark challenge to the international powers who have broadly welcomed the apparent change announced by Rohani, while warning that they are also looking for concrete signs of cooperation fromTehran.
Obama told Netanyahu at a White House meeting on Monday that the Western powers had to "test" diplomacy with Rohani.
"But we enter into these negotiations very clear-eyed. They will not be easy, and anything that we do will require the highest standards of verification in order for us to provide the sort of sanctions relief that I think they are looking for, ” Obama added.
Netanyahu's speech adds to the
complications for Rohani, who said last week that he wanted a deal within months to end international doubts about Iran's nuclear intentions.
The West and Israel accuse Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a claim Tehran rejects.
Rouhani's telephone talks with Obama last week marked the first conversation between US and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Western negotiators are to hold new talks with Iranian representatives in Geneva this month in a first test of the overtures.