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AFP: Any decision by Israel about a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities remains "very far away," Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Wednesday as tension rose between Iran and the West. "We don't have a decision to go forward with these things. We don't have a decision or a date for taking such a decision. This whole thing is very far away," Barak told army radio. "The Iranians have not ended the oversight exercised by the International Atomic Energy Agency," he said. "They haven't done that because they know it would constitute proof of the military nature of their nuclear programme and that would provoke stronger international sanctions or other types of action against their country." >>>