Talk of a possible Israeli strike in Iran is “nonsense” and the solution to the nuclear standoff with Teheran is “not military,” President Shimon Peres said Thursday during a meeting with special US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell. Peres’s statement was seemingly at odds with remarks he made Sunday, when he warned that if US President Barack Obama’s overtures to Teheran proved fruitless, Israel would be forced to “strike” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
