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Israel has encouraged the Trump administration to press ahead with sanctions against its arch-foe, predicting that Tehran will eventually renegotiate a more limiting nuclear deal.See also:
Foreign Minister Israel Katz told an international security forum that Iran might accidentally stumble out of what he termed the "gray zone" of contained confrontation. "It should be taken into account that mistaken calculations by the (Iranian) regime...are liable to bring about a shift from the 'gray zone' to the 'red zone' - that is, a military conflagration," he said in a speech to the Herzliya Conference.
Israel has long threatened to take preemptive military action to deny Iran the means of making nuclear weapons. Tehran says it has no such designs. One of its senior lawmakers warned on Monday that Israel would be destroyed within "only half an hour" should the United States attack Iran.
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