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October 12, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/weekinreview/10erla.html

Nuclear-Bound, Terrorism-Supporting Iran is Giving Israelis Nightmares

(New York Times) Steven Erlanger - Iran - large, ambitious and run by radical clerics committed to the destruction of the Jewish state - is seen by Israelis as the most obvious and urgent threat today to Israel's very existence. Israeli officials say they have not had great success so far in encouraging a preoccupied Washington, a conflicted Russia, and a divided Europe to do much about Iran except talk anxiously about it. A nuclear Iran would embolden Syria and Hizballah to feel protected by an Iranian nuclear umbrella, suggested Dan Schueftan, a senior fellow at the National Security Studies Center at Haifa University. Egypt and other Arab countries would feel pressure to develop nuclear weapons, he added.

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