Netanyahu Says WikiLeaks Should Spur Arab Warnings About Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed satisfaction that disclosures by Wikileaks.org indicated that Arab leaders were as worried about Iran’s nuclear program as his own government.
“More and more countries, governments and leaders in the Middle East and the wider world understand that this is the fundamental threat,” Netanyahu said at a news conference in Tel Aviv. “I hope the leaders will have the courage to say to their nations publicly what they’ve said about Iran.”
Some 250,000 classified U.S. embassy cables were released by WikiLeaks, a non-profit website, with advanced copies provided to The New York Times, The Guardian, and other media outlets. U.S. officials denounced the release as jeopardizing diplomatic ties and endangering individuals.
The cables quote Saudi Arabia and other Arab governments as siding with Israel in urging the U.S. to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb, according to the New York Times.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan Ferziger in Tel Aviv at jferziger@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg at phirschberg@bloomberg.net
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