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>The point you made in your reply to John was that Iran's nuclear ambitions is strictly Israel's problem and they should and could deal with it. Unfortunately many governments share this point of view too, which I think is a big mistake.

That wasn't my point, but I agree it could have been read that way.

My point was that I figure the Israelis will be fully aware of when things are really getting dangerous as regards nuclear bomb capabilities in Iran and that they will do something about it.
And, in the meantime, ALL parties who may be interested in preventing Iran from ever getting nuclear bomb capabilities will apply diplomatic and/or economic pressures to "discourage" them. That might even end up in a U.N., or at least HONEST (unlike Prime Minister Blair's lap-dogging) multilateral agreement, to bomb installations into oblivion even before Israel thinks it has to.

cheers