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Obama to offer Israel "nuclear umbrella" -- paper
11 Dec 2008 06:27:02 GMT
 Source: Reuters
JERUSALEM, Dec 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama plans to offer Israel a strategic pact designed to fend off any nuclear attack on the Jewish state by Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday.

Haaretz, quoting an unnamed U.S. source close to Obama for its information, said Obama's administration would pledge under the proposed "nuclear umbrella" to respond to any Iranian nuclear strike against Israel with a U.S. retaliation in kind. No immediate comment on the Haaretz report was available from Israeli officials or the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv.

Iran denies its nuclear programme has military designs. But virulent anti-Israel rhetoric from Tehran has spread fears that the Israelis, who are believed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, could attack their arch-foe pre-emptively.


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