Recently an Israeli cabinet member stated that an attack on Iran looks unavoidable:
The fact is Iran has no known nuclear weapon program and is not known to be developing nuclear weapons.
Israeli official says Iran attack "unavoidable"
JERUSALEM: An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks "unavoidable" given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputies said on Friday.
"If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective," Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
"Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable," said the former army chief who has also been defence minister.
It was the most explicit threat yet against Iran from a member of Olmert's government, which, like the Bush administration, has preferred to hint at force as a last resort should U.N. Security Council sanctions be deemed a dead end.
Iran, which denies seeking nuclear weapons, has defied Western pressure to abandon its uranium enrichment projects. The leadership in Tehran has also threatened to retaliate against Israel -- believed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal -- and U.S. targets in the Gulf for any attack on Iranian turf....
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/06/06/africa/OUKWD-UK-ISRAEL-IRAN-MOFAZ.php
The fact is Iran has no known nuclear weapon program and is not known to be developing nuclear weapons.
Tehran - Iran regards the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as an acknowledgement of the peaceful nature of its nuclear programmes, ISNA news agency reported Tuesday.
ISNA quoted Iran's IAEA envoy Ali-Asqar Soltanieh as saying that the latest report from the UN nuclear watchdog once again acknowledged that all nuclear programmes by Iran are peaceful and that there was no deviation towards a secret military programme.
Soltanieh did not refer to other parts of the IAEA report which urged Iran to provide substantive explanations regarding nuclear weapons studies it is alleged to have carried out.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/n..._acknowledgment_of_peaceful_nuclear_programme
CHIEF UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei said overnight he had no evidence Iran was building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding "fuel to the fire" with recent bellicose rhetoric.
"I have not received any information that there is a concrete active nuclear weapons program going on right now," the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told CNN....
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22664498-5005961,00.html
Blasts from the Past: Western Support for Iran's Nuclear program
Iran's nuclear program started with the support, encouragement and participation of the United States, France, Germany and the UK because it made economic sense, and it still does. At a time when Iran's nuclear program is portrayed as an imminent threat, its interesting to see that the program actually started long ago, with the support and participation of the same countries that today insist Iran abandon its nuclear program.
links:
http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2006/05/blasts_from_the.html