obtain the support of the Security Council for the use of force against Iran? What are the chances that Washington would act without U.N. support?" Amidror argued that optimistic assumptions about a deal with Iran cannot be sustained —"neither the assumption that a monitoring regime can guarantee iden

educed. Requirements considered essential a few years ago have already been dropped, including the demand that Iran simply stop enriching uranium. Amidror also dismissed the idea that Iran won't cheat and try to build a bomb out of fear of the likely American reaction: "Does anyone believe that the us

house in Tzahala, a suburb of Tel Aviv, when his cell phone rang. It was Jaakov Amidror, Netanyahu's new security adviser. "Are you sitting down?" Amidror asked. standing in my neglected garden," Ben-Zeev replied. "Netanyahu has one more request," Amidror told him. "Germany is ready to sign the subma