(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel in Jerusalem on Friday: "Mr. Secretary, Chuck, welcome to Jerusalem. I'd like to express my deep appreciation, and that of the people of Israel, for the close defense and intelligence relationship and cooperation between Israel and the United States. We're also deeply grateful for your steadfast support for Israel's security, and most especially for the missile defense cooperation." "Foremost...is the danger posed to both our countries and to the peace of the world by Iran's pursuit of developing nuclear weapons....I wasn't surprised and I'm sure you weren't surprised by the recent UN report on Iran's ongoing efforts to deceive the international community, to continue to develop its ICBMs and to continually violate its commitments of Security Council stipulations on forbidding it to develop certain parts of its nuclear program." "We must not let the ayatollahs win. We must not let the foremost terrorist state of our time, Iran, develop the capability to produce nuclear weapons."
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