Tuesday, July 7, 2009

RUSSIAN EXPERT: Israel still deciding if it should attack Iran

RIA NOVOSTI: Israel still mulls preventative strike on Iran - Russian expert

Israel is not threatening anyone but has not yet decided if it would be right and necessary to launch a preventive strike against nuclear facilities in Iran, a senior Russian academic said on Monday. "Israel understands that the threat is growing and its main problem is whether or not to deliver a preventive strike, while there is still no bomb or once it is clear that only five minutes remain, together with the United States or without it," Georgy Mirsky, a senior research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations with the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RIA Novosti...(RIA NOVOSTI).

Full Article: http://en.rian.ru/world/20090706/155449371.html

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