US fears Israeli strike against Iran over latest nuclear claim

US fears Israeli strike against Iran over latest nuclear claim - Times Online: “A claim by President Ahmadinejad that Iran has 3,000 working uranium-enriching centrifuges sent a tremor across the world yesterday amid fears that Israel would respond by bombing the country’s nuclear facilities. Military sources in Washington said that the existence of such a large number could be a “tipping point”, triggering an Israeli air strike. The Pentagon is reluctant to take military action against Iran, but officials say that Israel is a “different matter”

Neither the US or Israel is going to allow Iran to get anywhere near enough nuclear material to make a bomb. Therefore a strike on Iran is almost certain in months.