Israeli, US defense chiefs to meet

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak meets with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Monday for talks that an Israeli adviser said would focus on the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed that Gates and Barak would meet but would say only that it was for "standard defense consultative discussions."

The meeting comes amid a continuing diplomatic impasse with Iran over its nuclear programme and just two days after Tehran announced that its uranium enrichment facility in Natanz has now expanded to 6,000 centrifuges.

In an interview with Israeli public radio, Amos Gilad, a senior adviser to Barak, said the defense minister would "discuss the threat posed by the Iranian nuclear programme."

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