OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday urged the international community to threaten Iran with “military sanctions”, saying economic measures are failing to curb Tehran's nuclear drive. “I believe it is incumbent upon the international community to intensify the sanctions and clarify that if Iran continues its program, there will be military sanctions,” Netanyahu said. He did not, in a statement released by the prime minister's office, specify what military measures he envisages. “I don't think there are any other means that will make Iran heed the international community's demands,” he said, in his first remarks on the issue after two days of nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers in the Kazakh city of Almaty. Netanyahu has long said that only a credible military threat, coupled with tough economic sanctions, could dissuade Iran from acquiring what Israel and the West believe is a capability to build atomic weapons. — Reuters
