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'Unavoidable' attack on Iran looms, says Israeli minister

An Israeli minister has said an attack on Iran's nuclear sites will be "unavoidable" if Tehran refuses to halt its alleged weapons programme
In the most explicit threat yet by a member of Ehud Olmert's government, Shaul Mofaz, a deputy prime minister, said the hardline Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "would disappear before Israel does
"If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective,"

comments published today by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

"Attacking Iran in order to stop its nuclear plans will be unavoidable."

Iranian-born Mofaz is a former army chief and defence minister
He is a member of Olmert's security cabinet and leads regular strategic coordination talks with the US state department.
Iran denies trying to build nuclear weapons and has defied western pressure to abandon uranium enrichment
the country will retaliate against Israel