Simon Peres

Israeli President Shimon Peres attends the Israeli Prime Minister’s special address at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23, 2014. Iran on January 23 stepped up its efforts to woo investors and normalise its relations with the West with an offer to help create a new multilateral body tasked with stabilising global energy supplies, designed to underline Tehran’s desire for a new relationship with the West following the partial easing of crippling sanctions under an interim deal on Iran’s nuclear capacity. Israel believes Iran remains dangerously close to the capacity to build a nuclear missile which would threaten the Jewish state’s existence. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 23 in Davos denounced Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani’s latest charm offensive as a typical piece of deception. AFP PHOTO / ERIC PIERMONT