Jerusalem, July 09: US President Barack Obama said in an Israeli TV interview broadcast today it is highly unlikely the Jewish State would surprise Washington with an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“It is unacceptable for Iran to posses nuclear weapons and we are going to do everything we can to prevent that happening,” Obama told Israel’s Channel 2 television in an interview taped yesterday.
“Neither of us try to surprise each other,” he said, when asked if he was concerned Israel would surprise the US with an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Israel, which has the Middle East’s sole if undeclared nuclear arsenal, regards Iran as its principal threat after repeated predictions by the Islamic republic’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the Jewish state’s demise.
–PTI