Israeli leader demands Iran ‘red line’ at UN

UNITED NATIONS: Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu flourished his marker pen on the floor of the United Nations on Thursday to draw a literal red line across Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions.

The dramatic intervention, in which he used a cartoonish graph based on a diagram of a bomb with a lit fuse to represent Iran’s enrichment program, was designed to underscore what he said was an imminent threat.

“The hour is getting late, very late,” the prime minister declared, warning that Iran was on course to enrich enough uranium to arm a nuclear device by as early as mid-2013, and demanding that the world intervene to halt it. “At this late hour, there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs -- and that is by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” he declared, deploying his red pen.

AFP