Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will begin meetings next week with French President François Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to convince them to support Israel’s position regarding Iran’s renegade nuclear program. Senior Israeli officials have also fanned out to various venues to back up Netanyahu’s oft-stated position that economic and political sanctions on Iran should be eased when the clerical regime in Teheran begins to verifiably dismantle nuclear centrifuges, and not before. Half-measures like freezing the program are not acceptable to Israel because it could easily be re-started at a later date.Read More
