Olmert not ruling out attack on Iran

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in an interview scheduled for publication on Sunday, told Germany's Spiegel magazine that he could not rule out the possibility of a military attack against Iran, and called for the international community to step up action against Teheran.

Olmert called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated threats to destroy Israel "absolutely criminal," and said that he expected "more dramatic steps to be taken."

Olmert was interviewed ahead of his planned trip to Germany, where on Tuesday he will meet and hold a joint press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

When asked about his recent offer to concede "large territories" in the West Bank for a "true peace," Olmert responded: "A prime minister should not make promises that he cannot keep but my message is clear: I am prepared to give up regions."

Such a withdrawal, Olmert added, would allow the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank.

On Friday, Olmert spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Iran's nuclear program and told Putin that he hoped the UN Security Council would vote to impose sanctions if Iran continued to flout the international community's demands that it stop its nuclear development, Army Radio reported.

Earlier, IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky told a meeting of mayors and local council leaders that Iran had nuclear capability that would "threaten not only Israel, but all of Europe."

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