U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that time is running out for diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program and said negotiations are set to resume in mid-April.

 

Speaking to reporters attending a security conference in Saudi Arabia, Clinton said, “It is up to Iran whether they are ready to make the right choice…What is certain is that Iran’s window of opportunity to seek and obtain a peaceful resolution will not remain open forever.”

To say that time is running out may have been an allusion to the Israeli government’s warnings that a unilateral strike – preventive war – on Iran is impending. This, despite a consensus in the U.S.-Israeli military and intelligence community that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons and that launching an unprovoked war would be dangerous and counterproductive.