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Last update - 18:24 07/06/2009
Clinton: If Iran strikes Israel, expect retaliation
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Iran, Israel News, UN 

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that Iran must expect full retaliation from a "a battery of nuclear weapons countries" should it ever attack Israel.

When asked during an interview with ABC News whether America had set as policy envoy Dennis Ross' statement that an attack on Israel would be seen as an attack on the U.S. itself, Clinton said:

"I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind that were Israel to suffer a nuclear attack by Iran, there would be retaliation."
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"I think part of what is clear is we want to avoid a Middle East arms race which leads to nuclear weapons being in the possession of other countries in the Middle East, and we want to make clear that there are consequences and costs," Clinton told interviewer George Stephanpoulos, though she would not elaborate on whether the U.S. would be part of said retaliation.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that a new report on Iran by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog shows that the global body cannot be trusted to monitor the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

"These findings demonstrate that the international community, no more than Israel, cannot place its trust in IAEA monitoring in Iran," the ministry said in a statement.

The International Atomic Energy Agency report said Friday that Iran is continuing to expand its uranium enrichment, despite three sets of prohibitive UN Security Council sanctions.


The watchdog reported that Iran had increased its rate of production of low-enriched uranium, boosting its stockpile by 500 kg to 1,339 kg in the past six months.

Stating that the report showed the agency's inability to carry out full and effective monitoring due to Iran's lack of cooperation, the foreign ministry urged the world to take concete steps to thwart the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.

"What is needed from the international community is immediate and determined action to ensure that Iran will not be able to produce nuclear weapons," the statement said.

"The weakness currently displayed by the international community allows a country like North Korea to pursue a policy of defiance, and Iran is an attentive student of this policy."

A separate IAEA report said Friday that the agency has discovered traces of processed uranium at a second site in Syria.

The IAEA has been examining U.S. intelligence reports that Syria had almost built a North Korean-designed nuclear reactor meant to yield weapons-grade plutonium before Israel bombed it to rubble in 2007.

On Sunday, the ministry said the report detailed many "suspicious findings," and criticized Syria's reluctance to let the watchdog visit the various suspected nuclear sites.

"This situation reinforces suspicions that Syria is trying to blur evidence of secret nuclear activity that took place at Dir a-Zur in eastern Syria," the statement said. "The Agency should condemn Syria for hiding the facts pertaining to this activity."


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      1.   Israel`s John Bolton has spoken 14:33  |  talknic 07/06/09
      2.   Israel cann`t trust UN! 14:37  |  ezzat tamimi 07/06/09
      3.   What does World mean?? 14:55  |  Palestinian 07/06/09
      4.   The breathtaking brass-necked hypocrisy of the State of Israel 15:17  |  Clickfool 07/06/09
      5.   D`ont trust Israel anymore 15:28  |  Mikhael 07/06/09
      6.   CFOLL Who is monitoring the Islamic bomb program in Pakistan? 15:31  |  PETER SM 07/06/09
      7.   UN not to be trusted to monitor Iran nukes 15:31  |  DT 07/06/09
      8.   Since when Israel became 15:32  |  Joe 07/06/09
      9.   #2 Clickfool. Oh Please! 15:50  |  H 07/06/09
      10.   give me a break 15:58  |  lincoln 07/06/09
      11.   UN must monitor Iran just like it monitors Israel! 16:01  |  Atrick 07/06/09
      12.   Just a hint of Israeli desperation 16:03  |  Chris Linthwaite 07/06/09
      13.   If Israel hadn`t been oblivious of the rest of world. 16:06  |  US citizen 07/06/09
      14.   Pot calling the kettle black 16:09  |  Marcos 07/06/09
      15.   I would not trust UN to tie my shoes 16:14  |  x-ray 07/06/09
      16.   talknic well named 16:15  |  got your number 07/06/09
      17.   since when you live usa Joe? 16:16  |  got your number 07/06/09
      18.   Atrick THE UN only monitors signatories to treaty 16:20  |  PETER SM 07/06/09
      19.   a jew with a bomb and an arab with one 17:06  |  samuel 07/06/09
      20.   Probably not the smartest move 17:06  |  Natallie Durson 07/06/09
      21.   And we can trust Israelsunmonitored nukes? 17:11  |  Ohio 07/06/09
      22.   Useless Nobodies 17:12  |  Frank 07/06/09
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      24.   World doesnt want to hear junk from Israel 17:14  |  fritz t. 07/06/09
      25.   Middle East "Nuke Free Zone" !! Why Israel refuses? 17:19  |  Antonio da Silva 07/06/09
      26.   Calling the kettle black eh? 17:20  |  Canadian 07/06/09
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      28.   OHIO - u already said it! 17:31  |  mickle 07/06/09
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      30.   flyingdoc57 on nuclear inspections 18:06  |  Natallie Durson 07/06/09
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      35.   More `rhetoric` from an evermore rhetorical US policy. Why just 18:29  |  common sense 07/06/09
      36.   OK x-ray, let`s pull out UNIFIL... 18:33  |  BBSNews 07/06/09
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      39.   2 nuclear nations acting like victums lol 18:38  |  chilem 07/06/09
      40.   To: #20 flyingdoc57 18:43  |  Good 07/06/09
      41.   Nuclear balance in the Mid-East 18:55  |  Mandelarab 07/06/09
      42.   To B.S.News (#27), a/k/a "The time`s up wingnut". 18:59  |  flyingdoc57 07/06/09
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      57.   My Dear 17 19:35  |  Persian Kitty 07/06/09
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      97.   STRANGE 14:27  |  OZ 08/06/09
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