Israeli President Shimon Peres warned on Monday that if Iran becomes a nuclear power it will create a "nightmare" for the whole world and not just the Jewish state.
"Iran is a danger not only for Israel but also for the rest of the world," Peres told foreign journalists.

"A nuclear Iran will be a nightmare for the world," he said at a press conference held ahead of celebrations on Thursday for the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence.

Peres said that Israel, the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear power, did not intend to carry out any military action against Iran, like that which it carried out in 1981 against the Osirak nuclear reactor in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

"There will be no need for military action if the world community is united," he said.

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The UN Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions against Iran over its refusal to heed successive ultimatums to suspend uranium enrichment, the process that can produce fuel for civilian reactors or, in highly extended form, the fissile core of an atomic bomb.

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