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AFP: Any decision by Israel on whether to attack Iran in a bid to halt its nuclear programme remains "very far away," Defence Minister Ehud Barak told army radio on Wednesday."We don't have a decision to go forward with these things. We don't have a decision or a date for taking such a decision. This whole thing is very far away," he said. Asked to explain what he meant by "far away," Barak said he did not want to make "forecasts." Barak's comments came as tensions rise over Iran's nuclear programme, which Israel and Western governments suspect masks a drive for a weapons capability.
GRN correspondent Orly Halpern in Jerusalem and Washington Post Bureau Chief Thomas Erdbrink in Tehran are available for coverage.