Ehud Barak

Netanyahu says ready to order strike on Iran

Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he was ready to press the strike button on Iran if economic sanctions fail to stop its nuclear programme.

'In 2010, Netanyahu, Barak ordered attack on Iran's nuclear facility'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak ordered Israeli defence chiefs in 2010 to prepare for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities but were rebuffed, a television report said.

Iran's nuke program soon strike-proof: Israel

Israel views the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran with greater urgency than the rest of the world, Israel's defense minister said today.

Israel calls for tougher Iran sanctions to not just deter but cripple

Barak said despite Western sanctions inflicting increasing damage on Iran's oil-based economy he had not seen any sign that Tehran was ready to give up its nuclear ambitions.

A nuclear Iran is threat to the whole world: Israel

Several rounds of increasingly punitive United Nations and Western sanctions against Iran have failed to persuade it to halt its uranium enrichment program.

Israel: More world support for a possible Iran strike

Capping a day of strident warnings by Israeli officials about the dangers posed by Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has said that the world is increasingly ready to consider a military strike against Iran.