World Agenda: Iran Outcome May Sway Binyamin Netanyahu To New Accord

The Times ^ | June 23, 2009 | James Hider, Jerusalem

[Strategy]

A change in the Iranian leadership could open the way for renewed peace between the Islamic republic and Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, said at the start of a brief European visit that will focus on the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions.

But one of his aides said that even if pro-reform protests succeed in forcing a change in Iran's president, it was unlikely greatly to diminish the danger from a potentially nuclear-armed Iran, which Mr Netanyahu deems an existential threat to the Jewish state.

"As long as there'll be an Islamic regime in place, I don't think there'll be a change in Iran's nuclear policy," said Avi Pazner, an advisor to the Prime Minister, who has made the Iranian threat the centrepiece of his foreign policy. He said that even if reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi should emerge triumphant from the standoff -- which is deemed unlikely at this stage by Israel -- Tehran was unlikely to relinquish its nuclear ambitions.

[Oldpuppymax]

Oh please!

[sarasota]

Whose Kool-aid is being drunk now? Peace between the two?

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