Iran might be 'over a year' away from nuclear bomb: Obama

March 15, 2013 08:43

United States President Barack Obama has said America will keep "all options on the table" to stop Iran from going nuclear, noting that Tehran is "over a year or so" away from developing an atom bomb, if it has any such plans.

Six days before his forthcoming trip to Israel, Obama, in an interview to Israel's Channel 2, asserted that the US did not want to go down to the deadline with the Iranians.

"Obviously we don't want to cut it too close," the US president said. He also rebuffed the notion that part of his message to Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be to try and reign in any possible Israeli military action.

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