There are three ways the world could strike Iran's threatened nuclear warhead - and the outcome of EVERY one is terrifying: MARK ALMOND
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has been warning the for well over a decade that 's hardline Islamic regime is on the brink of developing a nuclear warhead.
His doom-laden rhetoric has become almost part of the global background noise. Like the attention-seeking shepherd-boy in Aesop's fairytale, he has cried, 'Wolf!' so many times that the reaction of most world leaders is now to ignore his false alarms.
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