Israel fails to convince US of Iran's 'serious' nuclear threat

Maybe it has been decided that Iran isn't worth the effort, or that it just can't be afforded.

clipped from www.abc.net.au Israel has failed to convince the United States that Iran's nuclear program poses a serious and immediate threat, an Israeli Cabinet minister said, following publication of a US intelligence report. Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter criticised the US report published on December 3, that said Iran had put its nuclear weapon program on hold. He added that a US "misconception" could lead to a regional war. "We need to admit that Israel did not succeed in convincing the US leadership on the fact that an Iranian (nuclear) weapon threat is immediate and significant," Dichter, a former director of Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency, said in a speech near Tel Aviv. "It seems that what we put before them, how we presented it, wasn't persuasive enough," he said. "It's important for Israel to keep trying to convince with facts and intelligence data."