Whitehouse declines Netanyahu's request to meet with Obama

The White House's response marks a new low in relations between Netanyahu and Obama, underscored by the fact that this is the first time Netanyahu will visit the U.S. as prime minister without meeting Obama.

Not wanting to look complicit in an attack on Iran?

Netanyahu ramps up Iran attack threat

"With every passing day, Iran comes closer to a nuclear bomb, heedless of sanctions and diplomacy, said Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at a news conference in Jerusalem Tuesday. The world tells Israel 'wait, there's still time'. And I say, 'Wait for what? Wait until when?' Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel," said Netanyahu on a note of frustration against the Obama administration.

Did intelligence fears prompt Canada to cut Iran ties?

In fact, just days before Canada hastily broke off relations, the head of the Iranian army’s joint chiefs of staff boasted to the Fars News Agency that if Iran was attacked, America and its allies should expect major terror attacks in their homeland. The deputy chief commander of the Revolutionary Guard echoed this, vowing “Any aggression against Iran will expand the war into the borders of the enemies. They know our power…”

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Very interesting article: Israeli expert: Iran already a nuclear power, but can't deliver a bomb
"The main obstacle in the Iranians’ path, Even said, is weight. Uranium is five times heavier than plutonium. Creating a nuclear warhead and winnowing down the complex infrastructure necessary to detonate it effectively — to, say, the one-ton maximum payload of Iran’s best ballistic missile, the Shahab-3 — “requires sophistication that neither Iran nor Pakistan have.”"