Israel calls for paralysing sanctions on Iran

Iran’s ruling clerics could use nuclear weapons to strengthen their grip on power and the world must urgently impose crippling sanctions to prevent them from building such arms, Israel’s defence minister said on Sunday.Ehud Barak also predicted that Syria’s ruling Assad family could fall within weeks and that this would be a « blessing » for the Middle East. »Something is wrong with this family, the way they suppress the will of the Syrian people, killing them, slaughtering their own people, » he told a conference in Vienna. […]