Paper: Olmert Asks Bush to Prepare for Iran Strike

Tel Aviv /Washington - Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert will ask President George W Bush Wednesday to step up US and international action against Iran and prepare for a possible military strike against its nuclear facilities, the Yediot Ahronot daily reported.
Citing 'officials close to Olmert,' the daily said Wednesday the Israeli leader would tell the president that the measures taken so far to stop Iran's nuclear programme had run their course and had not yielded results.
Israel views Iran as its main existential threat, given Tehran's nuclear drive and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejd's often-repeated statements that the Jewish state needs to be erased from the map.
Olmert, speaking Tuesday night to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), called Iran 'the most serious and imminent threat to global security and stability' and said that 'the Iranian threat must be stopped by all possible means.'
'International economic and political sanctions on Iran, as crucial as they may be, are only an initial step, and must be dramatically increased,' he told the AIPAC policy conference in Washington.
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