GOSH, WHY DOES IRAN WANT NUKES?:

"I won't go into policy details, but as we have said in the past, we are preparing for all eventualities," Kochav told Israeli radio Kan Bet.

He added: "We have enhanced our level of readiness, and the military and operational spheres are at the forefront of both preventing Iran from establishing itself in the northern arena and preventing it from becoming a threshold state."

"When I say that we are accelerating our plans against Iran - I mean precisely that."

Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi, criticised the United States' support for the Israeli nuclear programme, saying it "makes it impossible to achieve a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction."

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