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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/14/us-iran-nuclear-israel-idUSBREA3D0BM20140414
Israel: Short-Term Iran Nuclear Threshold Is "Unacceptable"
(Reuters) Israel described as "unacceptable" on Monday remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggesting cautious openness to negotiating a nuclear deal that would keep Iran six to 12 months away from bomb-making capability. "In the past, and also recently, what we heard from the Americans, including publicly, and from the Europeans and even from the Russians, was that Iran must be distanced years - not months but years - from nuclear weaponry," Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli cabinet minister in charge of nuclear affairs, told Israel Radio. "We will not be able to adopt and accept any agreement that keeps Iran within a range of months to a year from nuclear weaponry, because such an agreement would not hold water," Steinitz said. "It would also prompt Iran to get nuclear weaponry, and Sunni Arab countries like Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, perhaps also Turkey and the UAE, to seek to launch a nuclear arms race."