Netanyahu: Without Ultimatum, US has No ‘Moral Right’ to Stop Israel From Attacking Iran
JERUSALEM — Signaling a deepening dispute with Washington over issuing ultimatums for Iran’s nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that those who won’t make such demands on Tehran “don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”
In a blistering response to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s statement that the United States is “not setting deadlines” for Iran and that negotiations coupled with sanctions are the best approach, Netanyahu said that if no “red line” is established for Iran, it will continue a program that Israel says is intended to build an atomic bomb.
In a sign of the strained relations with Washington, a senior Israeli official said the White House has turned down a request by Netanyahu to meet President Obama during a visit to the United States to address the United Nations General Assembly later this month. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Netanyahu had offered to go to Washington to meet Obama after speaking at the General Assembly on Sept. 27 but that the White House responded that the president’s tight schedule left no room for a meeting. The official noted that on all previous trips to the United States, Netanyahu had met the president.
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