Israel Says It’s Influencing Debate on Iran Nuclear Deal

An Israeli cabinet minister said world powers will take heed of his government’s concerns about a deal with Iran even as a former security adviser warned that Israel could still take matters into its own hands with a military strike.

Israeli officials, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have railed against the proposal world powers offered to Iran in Geneva earlier this month, saying it wouldn’t prevent Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons that would threaten the Jewish state’s survival. At a news conference with French President Francois Hollande yesterday, Netanyahu said it was “my duty to prevent anyone from credibly threatening or executing another Holocaust against the Jewish people.”