US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday urged Arab states in the Gulf to stay focused on sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, at the start of a regional tour.
"We don't want anyone to be misled by anyone's intelligence," Clinton told reporters on her plane before landing in Abu Dhabi. "We expect all of our partners who share that concern (over Iran) ... to stay as focused as they can and to do everything within reason that will help to implement these sanctions," she said.
Israel's strategic affairs minister said in late December that Iran's nuclear programme was still about three years away from being able to build weapons as it had been hit by problems.
The programme has "a number of technological challenges and difficulties, so it has not succeeded," Moshe Yaalon, who is also a former Israeli military chief, told Israeli public radio.