On Monday, President Bush also called for the worldwide isolation of Iran until it gives up what he described as its nuclear ambitions. The president made the comment during a press conference in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

President Bush: “I think it’s very important for the world to unite with one common voice, to say to the Iranians that if you choose to continue forward, you’ll be isolated. And one source of isolation would be economic isolation. In other words, there has to be a consequence for their intransigence.”

Earlier in the day, Ehud Olmert appeared on “The Today Show” and claimed that Iran will soon have nuclear weapons.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: “I don’t want to measure it in days or weeks, but it’s quite close, and we have to join forces in order to stop it, because this is a serious danger to many countries, amongst them Israel, and this is a moral obligation that we all have, and I think that we all understand. It will not happen. It can’t happen. We will not tolerate the possession of nuclear weapons by Iran, and I think America, and I even believe that Russia, will not tolerate it.”