Israel PM calls for naval blockade of Iran

Olmert raised the issue during a meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday with US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the newspaper said.
"The present economic sanctions on Iran have exhausted themselves," Olmert was quoted as telling the California Democrat.
Asked about the report, Olmert's spokesman Mark Regev would say only: "We do not confirm this information."
Rafi Eitan, a member of Olmert's security cabinet, said he also favoured air travel restrictions against Iran.
"A blockade of maritime and air routes against Iran is a good
possibility," Eitan, the minister in charge of pensioners' affairs,
told public radio.
"There are voices we hear in Washington that indicate the military option remains open," he added.
Israel, the Middle
East's sole if undeclared nuclear power, suspects, like Washington,
that Tehran's nuclear programme is cover for a drive to develop an
atomic bomb, something Iran strongly denies.