PM: UK WON’T SUPPORT ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
March 16, 2012 – 19:08 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The UK would not support Israel if it decided to
launch a strike against Iran, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Cameron said his government
had warned the Israelis against taking military action in a bid to
prevent Iran potentially developing nuclear weapons.

“I don’t think as we stand today that military action by Israel would
be justified,” Cameron said. “I don’t think the Israelis should take
that action now. We told them they shouldn’t and said we wouldn’t
support it if they did.”

Instead, the prime minister advocated a combination of sanctions
and incentives to convince Tehran not to pursue nuclear weapons –
including allowing them nuclear power plants.

However, Cameron warned, “we take nothing off the table.” Britain
would not rule out military action altogether, he said, depending on
how the situation develops.

His comments echo those of US President Barack Obama, who has said
that no option is off the table when it comes to preventing Iran
becoming nuclear-armed, but advocated political rather than military
pressure first.

Iran would ultimately be willing to give “full transparency” on its
nuclear program with “permanent human monitoring,” Mohammad Javad
Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, told CNN in an interview. In exchange, Tehran demands the
full rights allowed signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty.

“The Western community can ask us for more transparency,” Larijani
said. “What we want in place of that is cooperation.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated that his
country could be willing to act without its allies to stop what it
perceives as an urgent nuclear threat.

“An Israeli prime minister can not hand over the ability to act
against this threat [of a nuclear-armed Iran] to others,” Netanyahu
told parliament earlier this week, Global Post reported citing Haaretz.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress