Cameron urges Israel to give Iran sanctions time

October 16, 2012 02:07

British Prime Minister David Cameron today urged Israel not to launch a military attack on Iran over its contested nuclear programme and said sanctions should be given time to work.

Cameron said in a speech to the United Jewish Israel Appeal in London that a military strike against sites in Iran would only serve to rally the Iranian people around the regime at a time when the sanctions were starting to bite. But he warned the Iranians that if they failed to halt uranium enrichment, then "nothing is off the table".

His intervention came as European Union foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed a host of tough new financial and trade sanctions against Iran aimed at forcing a breakthrough in stalled talks on the nuclear programme. Cameron refuted claims that the sanctions strategy was "fatally flawed", saying they had helped to slow the nuclear programme and reduced Iranian oil exports by 45 per cent.

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