Over the past months Iran has been threatened numerous times by the US and Israel. Will Iran be attacked before the end of the year?
The United States warned Iran on Tuesday that December is ‘a very real deadline’ after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed an international ultimatum over its nuclear program.
The United States and France have explicitly said Tehran must accept a UN-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel by the end of the year or face the threat of further sanctions.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that the P5+1, which gathers UN Security Council veto-wielding permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States with Germany, were all on board on the deadline.
‘I think that the international community is united in this. This is not (just) something that the (US) president has said… This is something that the members of the P5+1 have said,’ Gibbs said.
‘That’s why we are at the point where we are now with the international community waiting to see and have been waiting to see for months whether Iran will live up to its responsibilities.’
Earlier Tuesday Ahmadinejad again rejected the year-end deadline and delivered another broadside against Western pressure over its suspect nuclear activities.
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