Iran's Rouhani calls Israel a 'miserable country' Mr Netanyahu on Sunday renewed his threat to take unilateral military action to halt Iran's nuclear programme, disparagingly referring to Rouhani as "a wolf in sheep's clothing" who would "smile and build a bomb." We're closer than the United States. We're more vulnerable. And therefore, we'll have to address this question of how to stop Iran, perhaps before the United States does," Mr Netanyahu said on CBS News's Face the Nation. They're edging up to the red line. They haven't crossed it yet," the Israeli premier said, referring to the point at which Iran would be able to make its first nuclear weapon. They're getting closer and closer to the bomb. And they have to be told in no uncertain terms that that will not be allowed to happen. Israel is the Middle East's sole but undeclared nuclear power. Iran for years has been at loggerheads with world powers over its nuclear drive, which Western nations and Israel believe is aimed at developing an atomic weapons capability. Tehran insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful. The Iranians offered some encouragement on Wednesday when the foreign ministry promised to resume talks with world powers on its controversial nuclear programme once Mr Rowhani has been sworn in and a new negotiating team formed. Edited by Alex Spillius for The Telegraph.