From the New York Sun, at http://www.nysun.com/article/56126
_______________Israel Seeking New Deadline on Iran Bomb
Wants Tehran To Change Behavior by Year's End or Risk 'Next Level'
By ELI LAKE
Staff Reporter of the Sun
June 8, 2007WASHINGTON A senior Israeli delegation, here for strategic talks with top American government officials, is calling for an expiration date on the diplomatic approach to Iran of the end of the year.
Speaking to the Israeli press on Wednesday evening after meeting Secretary of State Rice, Israel 's deputy prime minister, Shaul Mofaz, said, "Sanctions must be strong enough to bring about change in the Iranians by the end of 2007." According to a source familiar with discussions yesterday with the undersecretary of state, Nicholas Burns, Mr. Mofaz said, "Technical developments for the Iranian nuclear program will not follow a linear progression," a clear warning that America's official estimate that Iran will not attain an atomic bomb for at least five years could be dangerously optimistic.