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'New reports on Iran's nuke program add urgency to tough sanctions' | The Obama administration has underscored the urgency of tough new sanctions against Iran in the wake of new revelations that Tehran has been working secretly on a trigger for a nuclear bomb. "Now that work may have been done on a
trigger mechanism, this certainly gives urgency, in the absence of any meaningful response
from Tehran in terms of additional pressure on sanctions," The Times quoted a senior US
official, as saying. He added: "The revelations that work has been done(on a nuclear
trigger) do add a sense of urgency and these revelations certainly don't hurt." Meanwhile,
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak used increasingly aggressive rhetoric over
the threat from Iran . Making clear that Israel reserves the right to launch a
military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Barak warned "all players not to
remove any options from the table", adding: "We do not remove it." "There is a
need for tough sanctions, something that is well and coherently co-ordinated to
include Americans, the EU, the Chinese, the Russians [and] the Indians," he said.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Friday said that world powers would soon
impose "significant additional sanctions" on Iran . The intelligence documents
had revealed that Iran has worked on a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear
bomb that triggers an explosion. |
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