By Mark Drajem and Janine Zacharia
Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Iran is driving toward a ``major breakthrough'' in its nuclear development effort that poses an ``unacceptable'' danger, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz [1] told a Washington audience today.
Iran with a nuclear weapon is ``an existential threat,'' Mofaz said at a forum on Iran at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. ``We have to make sure we are prepared for every option. All the options are on the table.''
Mofaz, a former Israeli army chief of staff, is a potential leader of Israel because of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert [2]'s planned departure from office. Mofaz is competing with Foreign Minister Tzi... >>>
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[4] //search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Jon Wolfsthal&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1
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[7] //search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1
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[11] mailto:mdrajem@bloomberg.net
[12] //search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Janine Zacharia&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1
[13] mailto:jzacharia@bloomberg.net
