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Israel Pours Cold Water on Big-Power Talks with Iran


(Reuters-Chicago Tribune) Douglas Hamilton - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday nothing short of Iran stopping uranium enrichment, getting rid of what it already produced and dismantling the means of making more, would satisfy him that it had no nuclear weapons project. "This is the true test. Without that there is nothing," he told the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Referring to the world powers negotiating with Iran, he said: "Not only do they need to strengthen the sanctions, they need to strengthen their demands from Iran for which they have placed the sanctions." Earlier Tuesday, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said the Baghdad talks had only produced "more Iranian time-buying." "(There was) no significant achievement except for the Iranians having been given another three weeks or so to pursue the nuclear project until the next meeting in Moscow," he told Israel's Army Radio. "To my regret, I don't see any sense of urgency, and perhaps it is even in the interest of some players in the West to stretch out the time, which would certainly square with the Iranian interest."
2012-05-30 00:00:00
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