Posted on 10/04/2009 7:15:40 AM PDT by maquiladora
JERUSALEM, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Long strident in its calls for tougher international action over Iran's nuclear programme, Israel has fallen silent as world powers try to convert last week's talks with Tehran into a lasting deal. Israeli officials have declined comment on Thursday's meeting in Geneva, which yielded agreements to open a newly disclosed Iranian uranium enrichment site to inspection and follow-up negotiations.
While experts in Israel and abroad voiced scepticism about the value of such moves, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-leaning government appeared to have adopted the "wait and see" attitude of the United States and its European allies.
"I assume official Israel is saying, de facto, that they withhold judgment until the picture becomes clearer, and that for now no new decisions need to be made," said a recently retired Israeli government adviser.
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A nuclear Iran is just downright dangerous. Period. End of story. It is not only an immense danger to its region and area of the world that it inhabits but because since it is a state sponsor of terrorism around the world, it poses a direct threat to the world.
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