Israel welcomes accord on UN Iran resolution

JERUSALEM: A senior Israeli official on Wednesday welcomed world powers agreeing on the text of a new UN Security Council resolution against Iran over its disputed nuclear programme.
The chairman of the Israeli parliament's powerful foreign affairs and defense committee, Tzahi Hanegbi, hailed the agreement by the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany reached in Berlin on Tuesday.
"It is important that the five members of the Security Council and Germany are in agreement, as the Iranian leadership has recently made it seem as if their nuclear programme enjoys impunity and as if the sword was not hanging above their head," Hanegbi told army radio.
"Before considering a military option against the Iranian nuclear programme one must prove that all the other means have been exhausted," he said.