The candidate for the Israeli premier has called Iran a major threat.

KommentariiPobeda to troih11.02.2009Na elections in Israel, two winners and one pobedivshiyLider right Likud party "Benjamin Netanyahu, which is responsible for forming the new government of Israel has called Iran a major threat to the existence of a Jewish state. According to him, the most serious threat to Israel since the war for independence, reports AFP.
Netanyahu said that Iran is developing nuclear weapons - an assumption that Tehran has repeatedly denied. The leader of the Likud also stressed that "Iran's terrorist forces threatening us from the north", meaning the support that Iran provides movements Hezbollah and Hamas, which has its headquarters in Lebanon and Syria.
However, in his brief remarks at the residence of Israeli President Shimon Peres, Netanyahu did not mention either the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which once again reached an impasse, neither the U.S. proposal to split Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state.
However, the leadership of the Palestinian Authority has already announced that he would not have to deal with the new government of Israel, if it proves its commitment to a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict.
In order to become Israel's prime minister and form a government, Netanyahu should seek the support of 61 MPs in the 120-member Knesset. Following the last parliamentary elections, Likud received 27 seats. Support for leader of the Likud Party also said Shas (11 deputies), "Our home - Israel" (15 members) and several smaller political organizations, with 12 mandates.
Thus support for Netanyahu has 65 deputies. However, the leader of our home - Israel, Avigdor Lieberman agreed to support the right of Likud only subject to the inclusion in the coalition of centrist party, Kadima. " Its leader, Tzipi Livni rejected such a format of a parliamentary coalition.
Nevertheless, writes The Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu, received the order to form a government, formally requested the support of Livni and former prime minister and Labor leader Ehud Barak.