Israel-Iran dialectic

Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk

From Haaretz on Saturday 21 June:
(1) Oil prices jump after report of Israeli drill for Iran attack
Iranian cleric: Israel to receive ’slap in face’ if it strikes; IAEA chief ElBaradei: I will resign if Iran is attacked.
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“Friday’s spike was not the first caused by tensions between Israel and Iran. Oil prices soared $11 on June 6, after former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff and Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said in a newspaper interview that ‘if Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective. Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable’. The chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said in remarks aired on Friday that he would resign if there was a military strike on Iran, warning that any such attack would turn the region into a ‘fireball’…” This full report can be read
here .

That ElBaradei threat will probably stop Israel right in its tracks …

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