[Reuters] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday, "I believe that now is the time to start harsh sanctions against Iran - if not now then when? These harsh sanctions can be effective." "The Iranian regime is weak, the Iranian people would not rally around the regime if they felt for the first time that there was a danger to their regime - and this would be a new situation," Netanyahu said. His comments appeared to signal that Israel had not given up on international diplomacy to curb Tehran's atomic ambitions.
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