As Iran plays hard to get with the West over the issue of developing nuclear weapons the country has triggered a dangerous arms race with Israel, allegedly already a nuclear power and its most potent rival in the Middle East. At present it's confined to a proxy war with assassination and sabotage as the main weapons, but there are fears, expressed yesterday by Foreign Secretary William Hague, that it could be sparked into the real thing.
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
