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<div>If you think gas prices are high now... what if Israel attacks Iran?</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/06/israel.iran?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/06/israel.iran?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront</a></div>
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<div>An Israeli minister has said an attack on Iran's nuclear sites will be "unavoidable" if Tehran refuses to halt its alleged weapons programme.</div>
<p>In the most explicit threat yet by a member of Ehud Olmert's government, Shaul Mofaz, a deputy prime minister, said the hardline Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "would disappear before Israel does".</p>
<p>"If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective," Mofaz, who is also Israel's transport minister, said in comments published today by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.</p>
<p>"Attacking Iran in order to stop its nuclear plans will be unavoidable."</p>
<p>Iranian-born Mofaz is a former army chief and defence minister. He is a member of Olmert's security cabinet and leads regular strategic coordination talks with the US state department.</p>
<p>Iran denies trying to build nuclear weapons and has defied western pressure to abandon uranium enrichment.</p>
<div>The leadership in Tehran has threatened that if attacked the country will retaliate against Israel - believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal - and American targets in the region.</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>