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Haaretz reported that Amir Kahanovich, chief economist at Israel's Clal Finance saying attacking Iran would exact far too high an economic price for the world to accept.
He cited sharply higher oil prices, disrupted global trade, and more affecting Israel and other nations.
Israel's Institute for National Security Studies Ephraim Kam doubt stiff sanctions are coming. Russia and China won't tolerate them. They'd also risk greater economic fallout. At most, he says "another round of light sanctions."
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said attacking Iran should be a "last resort." Doing so would have serious regional repercussions, he believes. Potentially they could be much worse.
Interviewed on Press TV , historian Peter Rushton accused Israel of escalating anti-Iran hysteria, adding:
"I think voters in Britain and America would do well to take a long hard look at those politicians who are prepared to give limitless trust to Israel at the expense of their own people" and regional peace.
Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah expects regional war to erupt from attacking Iran.
Also interviewed on Press TV , independent journalist Nader Mokhtari said:
"The United Nations has lost its basic functions for a very long time. (It) has not been able to intervene effectively in matters that it should have been able (to), according to its charter...."
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