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US President Barack Obama: “A red line for us is [if] we see a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around, or being utilised. That would change my calculus.”
Source: BBC online
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey: “Israel sees the Iranian threat more seriously than the US sees it, because a nuclear Iran poses a threat to Israel’s very existence.”
“There are risks in the situation today, it’s not simple, not risk-free. It will be infinitely more dangerous, complicated, complex and costly in human lives and resources to deal with a nuclear Iran in the future. The prime minister and defence minister and foreign minister have authority, we have the forum of nine senior ministers, there is a cabinet and the decision, when the time comes, will be made by the Israeli government. That is how it always was and that is how it should be. Not groups of citizens and not even editorials [will make the decision].”
Source: Arutz Sheva
Israel’s Ambassador to the US Michael Oren: “One, two, three, four years are a long time in the Middle East — look what’s happened in the last year. In our neighborhood, those are the rules of the game.”
Srouce: Bloomberg
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: “I don’t believe they’ve made a decision as to whether or not they will go in and attack. The additional sanctions have been put in place. They’re beginning to have an additional impact on top of the other sanctions.”
Source: BBC
Israel’s Ambassador to the US Michael Oren: “Israel is a small country with certain capabilities located in Iran’s backyard. And Israel, not the United States, is threatened almost weekly, if not daily, with annihilation by Iranian leaders. We still believe that truly crippling sanctions together with a credible military threat – and that I stress, that’s a threat; not that we just say that it’s credible, the folks in Tehran have to believe us when we say that – may still deter them. But we also have to be prepared, as President Obama has said, to keep all options on the table, including a military option.”