(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Israeli Home Front Minister Gilad Erdan said Wednesday: "The worst thing would be to stop the sanctions" on Iran. Israel is not opposed to diplomacy, said Erdan, but warned that Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, wants to lull the West into believing that negotiations can eliminate the threat of his country's nuclear weapons program - even as Iran continues to build such weapons. "What we see since he was elected is not only that nothing stopped, but exactly the opposite: They got better centrifuges that work faster." "The guy who decides everything is [Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah] Khamenei, and he [Rouhani] is the pretty face that Iran is sending." A few days before heading to the UN, Rouhani participated in a military march in which missiles on trucks bore words about destroying Israel, Erdan said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday and address the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
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