(CNN)Diplomacy can be dangerous. U.S. diplomats have come under attack in various places in the last few decades. Here's a look at U.S. diplomats who have been killed in the line of duty. The first U.S. ambassador assassinated while in office was John Gordon Mein, the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala. According to a telegram from the embassy in Guatemala City, a young man dressed in fatigues and carrying a sub-machine gun on  August 28, 1968, ordered Mein's vehicle to stop and for the ambassador to get out. He did, then ran -- prompting a cry of "Shoot him, kill him." Mein was shot and fell to the ground about 12 yards behind his limousine. Cleo Noel Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Sudan, was nearing the end of a March 1973 reception in the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum when terrorists stormed in. The gunmen took Noel and another American, as well as diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Belgium and Jordan, according to a U.S. intelligence memo. The captors' demand: Free various people, mostly Palestinian guerillas, then imprisoned in Jordan, Israel and the United States. This spurred negotiations that didn't go anywhere, ending instead with the killing of Noel, fellow U.S. diplomat George Curtis Moore and Belgium's Charge d'Affaires. U.S. authorities say the assailants belonged to the Palestinian terrorist movement known as "Black September," claiming that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed off on the attack. Ambassador Rodger Davies, who had been in Cyprus for less than months, hunkered down in a hallway on August 19, 1974, hoping he was safe from those involved in a nearby demonstration. Instead, a bullet penetrated the embassy compound and struck his heart, killing him instantly. Antoinette Varnava, a 31-year-old local who was part of the small embassy staff for about a decade, also died in the violence. U.S. ambassador to Lebanon Francis Meloy, his economic counselor Robert O. Waring and their Lebanese driver disappeared in June 1976 as they crossed the Green Line, the division between Beirut's Christian and Muslim sectors. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found a short time later in mainly Muslim west Beirut, which was then controlled by PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's guerrillas. Two former Muslim guerillas were convicted in the kidnapping and killings, only to be freed in 1996. About eight months after President Jimmy Carter appointed him as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs was taken from his car while heading home from the embassy. His captors took the Foreign Service veteran to the Hotel Kabul, where Dubs died in a shootout between captors and Afghan police -- a violent death that, whomever fired the fatal bullets, the U.S. State Department considers an assassination. A former eight-story hotel facing the sea transformed into America's embassy in Beirut turned into a war zone in April 1983, when a truck loaded with explosives was rammed into its entrance. The result was horrific. Offices were pancaked on top of each other, the elevator shaft and stairwell destroyed, the cafeteria full of bodies and rubble, recalled the then U.S. ambassador Robert Dillon, who himself was dug out of the rubble. While 44 people inside the embassy survived the blast, 17 Americans, 25 Foreign Service nationals, 10 contract workers and 10 visa applicants and passerby did not. In 2008, Dillon said the attack was believed to have been carried out by a family "under the direction of members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards." On August 7, 1998 -- around the exact same time a bomb went off at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 11 -- a huge explosion tore through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) lists eight people as having died in the attack on its memorial remembering Americans who died while serving the U.S. government abroad in a foreign affairs capacity.  Twelve Americans total were killed. Those are both jarring numbers, but they're still a fraction of the more than 200 people total killed in the attack, in addition to more than 4,000 wounded. In May 2001, a U.S. jury found four purported al Qaeda members guilty on all charges stemming from the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. As his wife of 34 years looked on, Laurence Foley was shot dead outside his home in Amman, Jordan, by a lone gunman in December 2002. A public servant for close to 40 years, the Boston-born Foley was serving as executive officer of the USAID mission in Amman at the time. U.S. officials were quick to label Foley's killing a murder, with the head of the AFSA calling it a "brutal terrorist attack." They later implicated Iraqi-based terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for providing "financial and other support to the terrorists who assassinated" Foley. Exactly 11 years after the September 11 attacks in New York, Washington and rural Pennsylvania, terrorists struck at Americans again -- this time some 5,000 miles away in the Libyan city of Benghazi. That's where Ambassador Christopher Stevens was when mortar and rocket fire struck a U.S. diplomatic annex there. Stevens didn't survive, nor did State Department computer expert Sean Smith or Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, two former U.S. Navy SEALs then acting as security contractors. The attack was first portrayed as violence by an angry mob responding to a video made in the U.S. that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. But officials later determined that it was a terrorist attack. Anne Smedinghoff, a 25-year-old public diplomacy officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, was delivering books to a school in southern Afghanistan when a suicide bomber smashed into her convoy. She died in that April 2013 attack, as did four others. "We thought she was relatively safe in the embassy compound," her father Tom Smedinghoff told CNN. "But as it turned out, Anne really wanted to do a lot more."

Several U.S. diplomats have died after being attacked . They include then-Ambassadors Christopher Stevens, John Mein and Francis Meloy .

 deaths are listed in chronological order, unless otherwise noted.
Hoover, Ambassador to Colombia (1940-1941): Hoover was a Republican senator from Ohio who headed the FBI during World War II. He was in Colombia in 1941 when his car ran out of gas near the city of Medellin. He was ambushed and killed by "bandits" who took his watch and wallet, and dumped his body into a river.
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Indiana Governor Mike Pence pushed back today on claims that his state's new religious freedom law is a 'license to discriminate.' 'I abhor discrimination,' he said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. 'If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn’t eat there anymore.' The Republican politician said to be considering a presidential campaign stated that he'd veto any bill that 'legalized discrimination against any person or group' - but that's not what Indiana's law does. With the storm that has gathered over his state since he formally approved the law last Thursday showing no signs of dissipating, Pence called off public appearances on Monday. Meanwhile, sports officials planned an 'Indy Welcomes All' campaign ahead of this weekend's NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis as lawmakers scrambled to quiet the national firestorm over the new law that has much of the country portraying Indiana as a state of intolerance. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . This is not a 'license to discriminate': Indiana governor Mike Pence, pictured here last Thursday - the day he signed the state's new religious freedom law, said today that he abhors discrimination and would veto a law making it legal . Controversial law: Indiana Senate President Pro Tem David Long, left, and House Speaker Brian Bosma, right, said Monday that they would be willing to clarify the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act to to make it clear that the measure does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians . Republican legislative leaders said they are working on adding language to the religious-objections law to make it clear that the measure does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. The measure prohibits state laws that 'substantially burden' a person's ability to follow his or her religious beliefs. The definition of 'person' includes religious institutions, businesses and associations. 'What we had hoped for with the bill was a message of inclusion, inclusion of all religious beliefs,' Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said. 'What instead has come out is a message of exclusion, and that was not the intent.' The efforts fell flat with Democrats, who called for a repeal, and even some Republicans. 'They're scrambling to put a good face on a bad issue. What puzzles me is how this effort came to the top of the legislative agenda when clearly the business community doesn't support it,' said Bill Oesterle, an aide to Republican former Governor Mitch Daniels and CEO of consumer reporting agency Angie's List, which canceled expansion plans in Indianapolis because of the law. Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, a Republican, said the law threatens to undermine the city's economic growth and reputation as a convention and tourism destination and called for lawmakers to add protections for sexual orientation and gender identity to Indiana civil-rights laws. 'I call upon Governor Pence and the Indiana Legislature to fix this law. Either repeal it or pass a law that protects all who live, work and visit Indiana. And do so immediately. Indianapolis will not be defined by this,' Ballard said. If Angie's List doesn't go through with the planned $40 million investment into new headquarters in Indianapolis, the city stands to lose out on a projected 1,000 new jobs in the next half decade. NOT GOOD ENOUGH: Indiana Senate Democratic Leader Tim Lanane, left,  and Indiana House Democratic Leader Scott Pelath, right, call for the repeal of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act at a Monday press conference . After a two-hour private meeting of House Republicans, Bosma said Monday that repealing the law isn't a realistic goal at this point." 'I'm looking for a surgical solution, and I think the least intrusive surgery is to clarify that (the law) cannot be used to support the denial of goods, facilities or services to any member of the public,' he said. Pence, who defended the law during a television appearance Sunday and in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, canceled scheduled appearances Monday night and Tuesday, in part because of planned protests. In the The Wall Street Journal essay, Pence argued that the religious freedom measure 'contains no reference to sexual orientation.' It simply 'mirrors' federal law, he stated. The federally mandated Affordable Care Act, he said, 'renewed concerns about government infringement on deeply held religious beliefs' compelling the Republican-controlled Indiana legislature to introduce enhanced protections for persons of faith. 'Faith and religion are important values to millions of Indiana residents,' he said. 'With the passage of this legislation, Indiana will continue to be a place that respects the beliefs of every person in our state.' Pence and Republican Senate President Pro Tem David Long have stressed that the new law is based on the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, which has been upheld by courts. But the Human Rights Campaign and other Democrat-aligned groups say it's disingenuous to compare the two laws. Demonstrators  gather outside the City County Building on Monday in Indianapolis, Indiana. A group of more than 2,000 protesters lined up outside the state Capitol on Saturday, as the tide of public opinion turned against the Hoosier State's new religious freedom bill . HRC's legal director, Sarah Warbelow, said the federal law was designed to ensure religious minorities were protected from laws passed by the federal government that might not have been intended to discriminate but had that effect. The Indiana law, she said, allows individuals to invoke government action even when the government is not a party to a lawsuit. It also allows all businesses to assert religious beliefs regardless of whether they are actually religious organizations. Warbelow said one of the best ways to fix the law would be to add language that explicitly says it cannot be used to undermine already existing civil rights protections. Democratic House Minority Leader Scott Pelath said Republican legislators should admit the law is a mistake. 'They're not facing up to reality — this is a national embarrassment,' Pelath said. 'The bush needs to be pulled up by its roots and thrown into the fire.' Indiana University law professor Deborah Widiss said the backlash is being fueled by the legalization of gay marriage and last year's Supreme Court ruling in a case that found Hobby Lobby and other closely held private businesses with religious objections could opt out of providing the free contraceptive coverage required by the Affordable Care Act. Indiana's lack of a law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is also a contributor, she said. Demonstrators react to the City County Council passing a resolution calling on the state to repeal or revise it's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act . Long and Bosma did not appear eager to add such protection into the measure, noting that it is a big policy decision and that only four weeks remain in this year's legislative session. The fallout continued over the weekend and into Monday. The national public-employee union known as AFSCME announced Monday it was canceling a planned women's conference in Indianapolis this year because of the law. The band Wilco said it was no longer come to the city for a May performance. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued a letter to Indiana corporations saying Virginia is a business-friendly state that does 'not discriminate against our friends and neighbors,' while Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sent letters to more than a dozen Indiana businesses, urging them to relocate to a 'welcoming place to people of all races, faiths and countries of origin.' Two states' Democratic governors , Connecticut's Dan Malloy, and Washington's Jay Inslee, said they were imposing an administration-wide ban on state-funded travel to Indiana. The city of Seattle, Washington, had already instituted such a travel ban as had San Francisco, California. As a similar bill advances in Arkansas, HRC's Warbelow said lawmakers need to take notice. 'We hope that the state legislature is paying attention ... and taking seriously that the whole world is looking at them,' she said.

New measure prohibits state laws that 'substantially burden' a person's ability to follow his or her religious beliefs . Republican legislative leaders said they are working on adding language to the religious-objections law to make it clear it's non-discriminatory . 'What we had hoped for with the bill was a message of inclusion, inclusion of all religious beliefs,' Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said . GOP governor Mike Pence says he'd veto any bill that 'legalized discrimination' - but that's not what Indiana's law does . The religious freedom measure 'contains no reference to sexual orientation.' It simply 'mirrors' federal law, Pence said .

 bakery owner refusing service to a lesbian or a gay couple, I would immediately call the ACLU.'
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says that his state's religious freedom law is nothing like the measure signed into law in Arkansas. "It was not designed and it was not meant to be a license to discriminate," he writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
The law, signed into law on April 2nd, allows businesses to use religious beliefs as a legal defense in disputes with the government -- namely LGBT couples. A similar measure, known as HB 1228, was vetoed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in 2014.
"To suggest that the Arkansas Act and similar legislation elsewhere are designed to create a license to discriminate against anyone, including gay and lesbian citizens, is preposterous," Pence writes. "My faith is precious to me and I abhor discrimination. If I saw a bakery owner refusing service to a lesbian or a gay couple, I would immediately call the ACLU."
Pence's op-ed comes after the national nonprofit group Freedom for All Americans called on Pence earlier this month to veto a similar bill, currently being considered by the state House. Pence told the Journal that he was not sure if he would sign or veto the bill, but also wrote that he had "serious concerns."
"A law as broad as we have in Indiana is much different than the Arkansas measure," Pence wrote. "Our law would extend religious freedom to all citizens, not only those holding religious beliefs. Our law would apply to churches and religious organizations as well as to secular businesses."
Indiana lawmakers passed the religious freedom law in response to the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that struck down state bans on same-sex marriage -- a decision Pence said he "strongly supported."
On the subject of Obergefell, Pence claims that the Supreme Court "effectively reversed its longstanding precedent" with the decision. "This is a dramatic break from history," he wrote.
The Governor is "summarily dismissive of (Obergefell and other cases) in a way that suggests a willingness to dismiss the history of the Constitution and the people’s clear will in order to justify personal priorities."
Pence's op-ed, which was also published in the Chicago Tribune, comes a day after he signed another controversial religious freedom bill. The measure


Ed Miliband was ridiculed yesterday for his plan to pass a law guaranteeing that television debates will take place in the run-up to future elections. The Labour leader claimed the move would ensure ‘once and for all, that these debates belong to the people’. But the plan was criticised by all sides, with former SNP leader Alex Salmond asking whether David Cameron would be jailed at Wandsworth prison for failing to take part. Ed Miliband was ridiculed yesterday for his plan to pass a law guaranteeing that television debates will take place in the run-up to future elections . He told BBC Radio 4: ‘Could you actually pass a law which says that somebody has to turn up at a TV debate? ‘What do you do when David Cameron doesn’t turn up? Shall we stick him in the clink, do we put him in Wandsworth?’ Labour’s launch of the proposed law was designed to keep up pressure on Mr Cameron over his refusal to comply with broadcasters’ plans for three TV debates during the election campaign. Last week Downing Street said he would attend only one, before the start of the formal campaign at the end of March. This would avoid the debates dominating the entire campaign, something Mr Cameron has been warning about for several years. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: ‘Frankly I think the broadcasters have made a real hash of this because the processes and discussions have been going on for months.’ She told Sky’s Murnaghan show: ‘They invited this party and that party. The Prime Minister has made a very clear offer – get seven parties in the same place, have a 90-minute debate before the campaign starts. The plan was criticised by all sides, with former SNP leader Alex Salmond asking whether David Cameron would be jailed at Wandsworth prison for failing to take part . ‘Otherwise, all we are doing all the way through the campaign itself is talking about the debates.’ Labour said putting the debates on a statutory footing would prevent the recent rows about when they should take place and which parties would be involved. The system would work on similar lines to the current rules for planning the number, length and timing of party political broadcasts, Labour officials said. This means that parties would be consulted but not given the right to veto. The Broadcasters’ Liaison Group would become a recognised legal body for deciding the debates’ dates, format, volume and who was attending. Mr Miliband said: ‘In recent days the British public has been treated to the unedifying and tawdry spectacle of a prime minister seeking to duck out of the TV debates he once claimed to support with great enthusiasm.’ On BBC Radio 4, Mr Salmond, right, asked: ‘What do you do when David Cameron doesn’t turn up? Shall we stick him in the clink, do we put him in Wandsworth?’ He told the Observer that the broadcasters had ‘made it clear they would not be cowed by his tactics but it is wrong for them and the British public to have governing parties use this kind of pressure in campaign periods. It is time to ensure, once and for all, that these debates belong to the people, not the prime minister of the day.’ Labour said it would set a deadline of 2017 for changes to be put in place ahead of the proposed 2020 election. The party’s deputy leader Harriet Harman told Sky News that Labour would bring in a legal framework ‘like there is for the party election broadcasts, like there is for the rules on election spending and the election campaign’. She added that this would avoid ‘the broadcasters working together on an ad-hoc basis and David Cameron just ducking and weaving’.

Labour leader claimed move would ensure 'debates belong to the people’ Plan was criticised by all sides including former SNP leader Alex Salmond . Idea was supposed to mount pressure on PM over refusal to comply with broadcasters’ plans for three TV debates .

 to the public and not the broadcasters or political parties’.
His announcement came the same week that the public service broadcaster, the BBC, came under fire for declining to broadcast a televised general election debate between its political editor, Nick Robinson, and the head of News Corporation, Rebekah Brooks, as a result of ‘commercial considerations’. Miliband’s promise was swiftly seized on by News Corporation, which claimed his move amounted to ‘treating Rupert Murdoch like a second class citizen’ by not allowing the Murdoch press to participate in televised debates.
The irony that Murdoch will not be allowed to put himself up against his political opponents to argue his case to the people, or that his newspapers will not be allowed to interview those same people, was missed by the Labour leader, who was instead seized upon for the ‘threat’ that Murdoch was the only one who could afford to pay for the privilege of participating in televised debates.
The fact that this is true does not make Miliband’s ‘law’ any less ludicrous. If the government really wants to make such debates happen, then this is what they will need to do: they will need to make sure the state spends a lot of money paying for a broadcaster to host these debates. If the government wants to protect the public right to free speech, then they might want to consider whether this expenditure is in their best interest.
However, this is not what Miliband is about. What he is really about is preventing the Murdoch press from having a voice in the debate. For the political class, to have ‘commercial considerations’ is an insult to the electorate. This is what Cameron said when David Cameron was elected Tory leader and Miliband was the defeated opposition leader.
This is why it is absurd to take the Murdoch threat seriously. The reality is that it would cost an awful lot of money to pay the BBC to provide for the public, free of charge, to hear what the major party leaders have to say – but not the public’s own politicians who are the voices of this government. This is why News Corporation doesn’t want the BBC to give up on broadcasting these debates.
This is also why it is absurd to argue that the debate is now ‘once and for all’ because News Corp will now sit down with the other parties to the debate to agree the format and the rules. This can be sorted out in ten minutes or an hour – whichever time frame makes for a more impressive press release. The truth


His nine-year career at Arsenal has been an emotional and physical roller coaster. Often showing glimpses that he is the perfect mix of power and guile his manager craves before spending weeks, or even years, in the treatment room, Arsene Wenger now looks set to release this French midfielder at the end of his contract in June. The ride is coming to an end. 1554 days, 222 weeks, over four years out injured. The numbers aren't as pretty as his playing style can be. This is the curious case of Abou Vassiriki Diaby. Abou Diaby poses with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger upon his signing in January 2006 . Diaby challenges Bolton's Matt Jansen (C) during a 1-1 draw at Highbury in 2006 . Diaby sits on the first of the 60,000 seats to be installed at the Emirates Stadium before Arsenal moved in . Diaby beats Sunderland's Tommy Miller (right) during a match at the Stadium of Light in May 2006 . 3339 days at club . 1554 days injured . 46.5% injured . When Diaby arrived in the Premier League on January 13, 2006, Arsenal beat off competition from Chelsea and Jose Mourinho to sign the 19-year-old from Auxerre. Comparisons were already drawn to club legend and former captain Patrick Vieira because of his height, intensity and technique on the ball. 'Diaby is a bit more offensive than Vieira but when he plays a more defensive role he is very similar,' Wenger said. He started off well, scoring his first goal for the Gunners in April against Aston Villa, but his debut half-season in north London ended in despair. Diaby was the victim of an 'assassins tackle' from Sunderland youngster Dan Smith - according to Wenger - his sickening scream as he fractured his ankle at the Stadium of Light must still be heard by the boss. All 42 of Diaby's injuries since he joined Arsenal in January 2006 . Diaby battles with Tottenham's Jermaine Jenas during their League Cup semi-final second leg at the Emirates Stadium in January 2007. Arsenal won the tie 5-3 on aggregate . Diaby tussles with Chelsea's Lassana Diarra (left) during the Carling Cup final in February 2007. Chelsea won the game 2-1 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff . Diaby kicked Chelsea captain John Terry in the face during the final in 2007 . Manuel Fernandes of Everton battles with Arsenal trio Jeremie Aliadiere, Cesc Fabregas and Diab during a league match at Goodison Park in March 2007. Everton won the game 1-0 . A bandaged Diaby under pressure from Manchester City's Michael Ball (right) during Arsenal's 3-1 win at the Emirates Stadium in the league in April 2007 . Arsenal have played in 350 league games since About Diaby signed. He has featured in 124 of them or 35%, one every 15.7 days. League games by season: 2005/06: 12, 2006-07: 12, 2007-08: 15, 2008-09: 24, 2009-10: 29, 2010/11: 16, 2011-12: 4, 2012-13 11, 2013-14 1, 2014-15: 0 . Put simply, the 28-year-old has never recovered. Whether it be a calf muscle or a hamstring, an abdominal strain or a cruciate ligament, Diaby's talent looks set to be wasted. He has clocked up 42 injuries during his Arsenal career, according to data from physioroom, averaging a new setback every 80 days. The Gunners have played 350 league games since his arrival but Diaby has featured in just 35 per cent of them. Despite his struggles, his almost constant spell on the sidelines hasn't been short of its positive moments. In early 2012 Diaby came back into the Arsenal team to feature alongside Mikel Arteta and Santi Cazorla and impressed, even scoring on his return to the French national team. Wenger heralded his fellow countryman as a holding midfielder when he made his one and only performance this season, a slack display against Southampton in a Capital One Cup defeat. Diaby is embraced by team-mates Eduardo (left) and Diarra (centre) during Arsenal's 3-2 win at Blackburn Rovers during the Carling Cup quarter-final in December 2007 . Diaby dives in to challenge Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney during the Champions League semi-final at Old Trafford in April 2009 . Diaby scores past AZ Alkmaar goalkeeper Sergio Romero during the Champions League Group H clash at the Emirates Stadium in November 2009 . The Arsenal midfielder scores a header past Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina in February 2010 . As recently as November, the Gunners' boss was insistent that Diaby would be offered his new contract if he were to prove his health. 'If he comes back, I will keep him. I always believed in him. In football, the most important thing is health.' But Diaby hasn't come close to featuring since, and given the wealth of midfield options Wenger has available it is extremely unlikely he will ever don the Arsenal shirt again, even if he were to return to fitness. He is the second longest-serving player at the club behind Theo Walcott, and is a much-loved figure in the dressing room. His emotional pull remains strong with the fans, who would love for him to be the midfield destroyer and box-to-box runner he has shown he can be. Diaby vies for the ball with Barcelona star Lionel Messi during the Champions League quarter-final at the Emirates Stadium in March 2010 . Diaby battles with Liverpool midfielder Joe Cole (left) during a 1-1 draw at Anfield in August 2010 . Diaby appeared on the final day of last season for Arsenal away at Norwich in his most recent Premier League appearance for the club. It was also his only appearance last season . However, this isn't a perfect world and head must rule over heart, especially at a club vying for the top places. Diaby has played one Premier League game in his last two years, and Arsenal have backed the player admirably. But as the midfielder looks to get back to full strength once again, wherever that may be, this quote by Vieira should not be forgotten. 'If he could have improved constantly, he would have reached an exceptional level. About his potential, he is better than me, better on a technical level, better dribbler, and better scorer too.' What a player Wenger could have had at his disposal. 2014 . Calf Muscle Strain, November 24 . Calf/Shin, October 14 . Hip/Thigh, July 26 . Groin/Pelvis, April 22 . 2013 . ACL Knee, March 27 . Calf/Shin, February 23 . Illness, January 22 . 2012 . Thigh Muscle Strain, September 29 . Muscle, September 7 . Calf Muscle Strain, April 28 . Illness, April 23 . Hamstring, March 29 . Hamstring, March 3 . 2011 . Hamstring, November 26 . Ankle/Foot, July 22 . Calf Muscle Strain, January 2 . 2010 . Calf Muscle Strain, December 30 . Ankle/Foot, October 19 . Ankle/Foot, October 4 . Ankle/Foot, September 13 . Calf Muscle Strain, August 11 . Calf Muscle Strain, March 27 . MCL Knee Ligament, February 17 . Calf Muscle Strain, January 20 . 2009 . Calf Muscle Strain, November 7 . Ankle/Foot, October 10 . Groin Strain, August 12 . Knee, July 27 . Thigh Muscle Strain, April 1 . Calf Muscle Strain, February 24 . Thigh Muscle Strain, January 31 . 2008 . Abdominal Strain, November 22 . Thigh Muscle Strain, August 3 . Thigh Muscle Strain, April 25 . Calf Muscle Strain, March 7 . Calf Muscle Strain, February 8 . 2007 . Back, November 22 . Sprained Ankle, August 14 . Concussion, April 20 . Sprained Ankle, February 25 . Knee, February 2 . 2006 . Ankle/Foot Injury, May 1 . 42 INJURIES (ONE EVERY 79.5 DAYS) calf muscle 11, ankle/foot 6, thigh muscle 5, hamstring 3, sprained ankle 2, illness 2, calf/shin 2, knee 2, hip/thigh 1, groin/pelvis 1, acl knee 1, muscle injury 1, mcl knee ligament 1, groin strain 1, abdominal strain 1, back injury 1, concussion 1.

Abou Diaby set to be released by Arsenal after nine years at the club . Midfielder has spent over four years of his spell at the club out injured . Arsene Wenger beat off competition from Chelsea to sign him in 2006 . Clocked up 42 injuries with Arsenal, averaging a setback every 80 days . CLICK HERE for all the latest Arsenal news .

 Wenger is in danger of dropping Mathieu Flamini from his first team ahead of Mikel Arteta.
Flamini, signed by Wenger from AC Milan for £7 million in 2004, has made 14 appearances this season but is yet to feature in the Champions League despite being a regular in the competition during his time in the north Londoners’ midfield. He only featured once in the group stage this time last season when Arsenal were eliminated on aggregate by Galatasary.
While a move to Real Madrid was mooted in the summer, the 31 year-old was convinced to stay by Wenger. And despite struggling to force his way into the side, he is convinced he will return to form before the end of the season. He is determined to keep his place in the team, but knows that he is going to face fierce competition from Alex Song – who joined the club from Barcelona in a £15 million deal in August – as well as fellow midfielders Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri.
He told reporters: “I haven’t been playing a lot recently because I haven’t been able to stay fit, but you have to take the good with the bad. I think I was probably in the best physical condition of my life in the six months before I had my knee operation in 2008.
“I’ve had some bad luck since. I’ve broken my metatarsal in 2008, my fibula the year after, and I’ve had a few little niggles since. When I was injured last time around, I was told my knee would be fine after two or three months.
“I don’t think that has helped the situation any more as a 31-year-old body doesn’t recover as easily as it did 10 years ago when I was 21. I’ve been struggling a little bit with my mind as well as I’ve been away from the pitch for such a long time. But I still feel very passionate about my club and the game. I still feel capable of playing at a high level and that’s why I’m staying.
“I love playing for Arsenal. I have been here for 11 years now and there is only one club I want to play for – and I want to play for it for the rest of my career.
“Maybe if I had moved on a year or two ago, it would have been the


Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff has urged Formula One's moaners to visit the Wailing Wall if they want their prayers answered on a change to the sport's regulations. Wolff was responding to the latest complaints from Red Bull team boss Christian Horner in the wake of Mercedes' crushing start to the 2015 season as Lewis Hamilton spearheaded a one-two in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Horner was left to reflect on 'a s***** Sunday' and the fear fans will turn off F1 after Mercedes' domination of the race at Melbourne's Albert Park . Nico Rosberg showers winner Lewis Hamilton after Mercedes finish on-two at Australian Grand Prix . Hamilton races to victory as Mercedes extend last season's dominance into the new campaign . Mercedes chief Toto Wolff has told critics of his team to work to find a solution . After winning the constructors' and drivers' titles for four years from 2010-2013, with Sebastian Vettel at the helm, Mercedes have taken up the mantle of F1 powerhouse. Having won 16 of 19 grands prix in 2014 to claim the constructors' crown, and with Hamilton clinching his second championship, the start to the new year was a breeze for Mercedes. Hamilton beat team-mate Nico Rosberg by 1.3secs, with Vettel third on his debut for Ferrari but 34.5secs off the pace. Predicting 'a two-horse race at every grand prix this year', Horner has called on the FIA to act to prevent an F1 yawn, and he is fully aware of how his comments will be viewed given Red Bull's success. 'When we were winning - and we were never winning to the advantage they have - I remember double diffusers were banned, exhausts were moved, flexible bodywork was prohibited, engine mapping mid-season was changed,' said Horner of the steps taken to negate his team's performance. Red Bull's Christian Horner has complained about Mercedes, despite his team winning four consecutive titles . Horner claim that leaving Hamilton and Rosberg to fight it out for the title is unhealthy for the sport . Re-live every lap of the Melbourne race . 'Anything was done and that wasn't just unique to Red Bull, but Williams in previous years and McLaren, etcetera. 'Is it healthy to have this situation? The FIA, within the rules, have an equalisation mechanism and it is perhaps something we need to look at. 'Mercedes, take nothing away from them, they have done a great job and they have a good car, a fantastic engine, and two very good drivers. 'The problem is the gap is so big you end up with three-tier racing and that's not healthy for Formula One. 'The FIA have the facts and they could quite easily come up with some form of equalisation otherwise I fear the interest will wane. 'I didn't see Mercedes much on the TV and I can only imagine that's because it's not interesting watching a procession and the producer was looking to pick out other battles in the race.' Referring to the fact Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger conducted the podium ceremony, Horner added: 'The highlight for me was to see Arnie on the podium!' Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger interviews Hamilton after his winning start to the season . Responding to the call for equalisation, Wolff said: 'If you come into Formula One, try to beat each other and perform at the highest level and then you need equalisation after the first race - you cry out after the first race - that's not how we've done things in the past. 'I think 'Just get your f****** head down, work hard and try to sort it out'.' Quickly clarifying his remark, Wolff added: 'I didn't mean the f-word in relation to him (Horner).' Asked whether he feared another political season, Wolff replied: 'It is always a political season. It was last year and it is this year. 'There is this wall in Jerusalem that you can stand in front of and complain. Maybe the guys should go there.' 1. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:31:54.067 . 2. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes +00:01.360 . 3. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Ferrari 00:34.523 . 4. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Williams-Mercedes 00:38.196 . 5. Felipe Nasr (Brazil) Sauber - Ferrari 01:35.149 . 6. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) Red Bull - Renault 1 lap . 7. Nico Hulkenberg (Germany) Force India - Mercedes 1 lap . 8. Marcus Ericsson (Sweden) Sauber - Ferrari 1 lap . 9. Carlos Sainz Jr (Spain) Toro Rosso - Renault 1 lap . 10. Sergio Perez (Mexico) Force India - Mercedes 1 lap . 11. Jenson Button (Britain) McLaren 2 laps . r. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari 18 laps . r. Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Toro Rosso - Renault 25 laps . r. Romain Grosjean (France) Lotus - Mercedes 58 laps . r. Pastor Maldonado (Venezuela) Lotus - Mercedes 58 laps . r. Daniil Kvyat (Russia) Red Bull - Renault 58 laps . r. Kevin Magnussen (Denmark) McLaren 58 laps . ns. Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Williams-Mercedes . (rank: r = retired, nc = not classified, ns=not started) Fastest Lap: Lewis Hamilton,01:30.945, lap 50.

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg finished one-two at Australian GP . Red Bull chief Christian Horner claims Mercedes dominance is unhealthy . Toto Wolff responded by telling critics to work harder to beat his team .

 Christian Horner about the 'anti-competitive' way Mercedes have become accustomed to winning races and world championships.
The Red Bull boss has long been a regular whiner on the subject of the sport's current regulations, be it about its current engine rules, its budget caps or its use of 'off the shelf' technology. He has also previously accused Mercedes of cheating with its use of a controversial front-wing flexing system, a claim the team has been forced to refute in court.
When asked for his take on Horner's comments at the launch of the 2018 cars in Barcelona, Wolff told Sky F1: "I have this vision of Red Bull going to the Wailing Wall and praying it's going to change. "Why don't they go and pray it, and they can get back to us.
"There's no change at all, nothing. The regulations are very, very clear, it's about the team who works harder, who is innovative. That is it. That is the reality of the sport." As usual, Horner and Red Bull are far from the only people who have sounded their disapproval of the current technical regulations.
Mercedes themselves have been very vocal in public about the need for change, especially on the issue of the team's ultra-complicated power unit. Wolff and Mercedes have called for less engine restrictions, though the FIA has said the rules are not open to significant change at this time.
Ferrari has even taken its fight to the International Court of Justice, claiming that the regulations are unfair. Yet Wolff insists that Mercedes' lead in the championship and in terms of prize money is deserved, having been a world-beating team for several years.
He believes that the complaints are based on emotion rather than on reason, and that Mercedes will always be the 'top dog' if it continues to find success with its current regulations. "The thing is, we have always tried to be constructive about it," Wolff explained.
"We have tried to say: 'Give us the rules that you want. We are ready to debate.' But it's always 'Let's talk and then we have to be the first to do it'. Then 'we have to follow', and 'we have to be last to do it'.
"That is basically what the conversation is and if you say, 'Hey, Mercedes is the top team, if you


Islamic State murderer Jihadi John had links to the 2005 bomb plotters who tried to blow up London's tube system just weeks after the horrific July 7 attack which killed 52 people, it has been revealed. Mohammed Emwazi, who was unmasked as Islamic State's cold-blooded executioner last week, was a member of a terror cell that was known to have links to the failed July 21, 2005 attacks on London. Documents have revealed a key figure of his London-based terror cell talked to one of the terrorists on the day of the attempted tube bombing - the would be terrorist was later jailed for life over the failed attack. Scroll down for video . Mohammed Emwazi (pictured) who was revealed as Islamic State's cold-blooded executioner Jihadi John this week, was a member of a terror cell that was known to have links to the failed July 21 attacks on London . The revelation has raised even more questions over how Emwazi, the Islamic State extremist behind the beheading of western hostages, was able to run away from Britain and the scrutiny of the security services despite being a member of the watched terror cell. Emwazi, who was brought up in west London, was subject to a no fly order and was on a terror watch list but still managed to leave without detection. It was revealed this week that he was a 'person of interest' to MI5 as a member of a cell known as The London Boys, which was set up to recruit and raise funds for Somalia-based terror group al Shabab. MI5 was also aware of Emwazi for six years before he appeared on a hostage video for the first time in August 2014. And now, even more worryingly, it has been revealed at least one member of his network had a connection with the worst terrorist atrocity to take place on British soil. The failed July 21 attacks came just two weeks after four men blew themselves up on London's tubes and a bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700 in 2005. CCTV footage of failed July 21 bomber Hussein Osman (circled in green) at Clapham Junction train station . Metropolitan Police footage  showing Ismail Abdurahman with Hussein Osman at Vauxhall train station . Court documents seen by The Observer reveal a leading member of Emwazi's network had a phone conversation on the day of the attacks with Hussein Osman, who was later jailed for life for placing an explosive at Shepherd's Bush tube station. The documents show that security services were aware that associates of the 12-strong west London terror group had joined the four July 21 bombers at a training camp in Cumbria a year before the attempted terror attack. On Friday, Boris Johnson lashed out at Home Secretary Theresa May for watering down strict anti-terror powers which may have helped Emwazi escape the net and travel to Syria. The London Mayor accused his Tory leadership rival of giving the 'benefit of the doubt' to terror suspects like Emzawi. Mr Johnson's attack comes amid the growing controversy over who is to blame for MI5's failure to stop 'known wolf' Emwazi leaving Britain for the front line in Syria in 2013. The Government's independent reviewer of terror legislation David Anderson admitted MI5 may have 'slipped up'. But he said: 'One won't know until there's been an inquiry or a report of some kind.' But experts believe Emwazi was helped to escape Britain by his terror associates who had been allowed back to London by the Government in 2011. Mayor of London Boris Johnson (pictured right) lashed out at Home Secretary Theresa May on Friday for 'watering down' strict anti-terror powers which may have helped Emwazi escape the net and travel to Syria . It is understood that three members of Emwazi's network were made subject in 2011 to control orders brought in by the last Labour government, which meant they had to live outside London. But the control orders were disbanded by the coalition and they were instead subject to Tpims – terrorism prevention and investigation measures – which allowed them to return to London and re-engage with Emwazi. Two of the men on these weakened orders – known only as BX and CC in the court documents – aided with money, a false identity and bogus travel documents by the London jihadi cell. The power to relocate terror suspects was reintroduced a fortnight ago, under growing pressure from the security services. Mr Johnson slammed the 2011 'mistake' to scrap the 'internal exile' powers contained in Labour's control order regime. The Mayor of London said: 'We need to keep a very, very close eye on these people. 'The decision to modify the control orders, to water them down I think in retrospect looks as though it was a mistake because it is vital to be able, when you are controlling these people to be able to relocate them, to take them away from their support networks and look after them, to monitor them properly. 'We are now back on the right track and it just confirms to me the vital importance of us being able to monitor these people, to keep tabs on them, to look at what they are saying to each other in their email, their electronic contact. 'This whole thing needs to be tackled very, very robustly. 'We need to have a very strong security response that gives our people, gives our security services and the police the surveillance powers that they need.' British Journalist David Haines (pictured) who was killed by Jihadi John - believed to be Mohammed Emwazi . Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette cooper shadow backed the London Mayor's attack on Mrs May. She said: 'We warned the Government from the start not to abolish control orders. I said in Parliament many times that those relocation powers were immensely important and that removing them would make it easier for terror suspects to organise.' The Labour shadow minister added: 'At the very least, the Prime Minister should ask the Intelligence and Security Committee to examine the period following the scrapping of relocation. 'Parliament needs to know whether the legislation to alter counter terror powers affected the UK's ability to prevent people travelling to Syria. 'The Home Secretary has a duty to protect national security, so if the decisions she made on legislation against expert advice have weakened national security instead, the public and Parliament have a right to know.' A Home Office spokesman said: 'Control orders were not working and were being struck down by the courts. 'Tpims have been endorsed by the courts, counter-terrorism reviewers, the police, and the Security Service. 'Following a review of the powers available to manage the terrorist threat, the range of measures available under the TPIM Act is being extended including a measure to allow Tpim subjects to be relocated to different parts of the country. 'Additionally the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, which became law this month, will bolster our already considerable armoury of powers to disrupt the ability of people to travel abroad to fight, reduce the risks they pose on their return and combat the underlying ideology that feeds, supports and sanctions terrorism.'

Mohammed Emwazi was revealed as Islamic State's executioner last week . He had links to the 2005 bomb plotters who tried to blow up the tube . Failed attack was due to take place just two weeks after 21/7 bombing . 52 people were killed and 700 injured in worst terror attack on British soil . Court documents reveal key member of Emwazi's watched terror cell spoke to one of the failed terrorists on the day of the attempted bombing . Revelation raises urgent questions over how Emwazi was able to leave UK .

wazi is the British-accented terror mastermind who was so successful at killing innocent Westerners in Syria that he attracted his own Wikipedia page. The 27-year-old Londoner was named by the terror group as Mohammed Al-Shamamani when it showed his face alongside the bodies of Western soldiers killed by his terror associates. It also claimed responsibility for the murder of five tourists at Tunisian beach resort of Sousse earlier this month. But it has now been revealed Emwazi – better known as Jihadi John – was linked to the 2005 terror plot on the London Underground and the bombing of Glasgow International Airport in 2007, and had even worked for British intelligence. The details have emerged from a review of the case files of the five men convicted over the attempted attack on the tube system. The Independent revealed last month that Emwazi had been in touch with the British terror suspects just days before the suicide bombings that took place on July 7, 2005. The details of the correspondence and Emwazi's own movements on July 6-8, 2005, have been revealed by security sources as part of an appeal by the families of those killed on the London Underground. The details emerged as a court heard that Emwazi had also applied for a passport in the name of Mohammed Junaid, but was refused because he had failed to prove his identity. Police are now trying to identify who was behind Emwazi’s other online names. According to a security source, Emwazi was in touch with Abdulla Ahmed Ali, an explosives expert who was also jailed over the plot, in the weeks before the 2005 attacks. Ali, known as the Doctor, was convicted of working with Emwazi and others to carry out the suicide attack on the underground train network. Emwazi had previously been jailed for three years in London in 2004 after he was convicted of helping to recruit British citizens for jihadist causes with a group linked to Al Qaeda. He was released to live in Kuwait on his return to his home country. The source said: ‘He was talking to someone called Mursi Jibril who is now deceased. ‘We are trying to find out who that person was.’ Emwazi is now thought to be in Syria with his wife Fatima, who came from Kuwait, and was recently pictured with the terror group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The jihadist


Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been jailed for five years for sex attacks on young boys . TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been jailed for five years for indecently assaulting two schoolboys when he was a teacher. Talbot, 65, a regular on the floating weather map in Liverpool's Albert Dock for ITV's This Morning show, was described  as a 'chancer' who used his  'extrovert personality' to gain the trust of his victims. Talbot, who was cleared of assaulting three other boys, was sentenced by Judge Timothy Mort at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court today. The judge told him: 'You deliberately and indecently assaulted the two of them for your own gratification.' Talbot, who sat in the dock wearing glasses and a purple jumper over a shirt and grey trousers, showed no emotion as he was jailed. He appeared relaxed as he entered the dock and acknowledged people in the packed courtroom. Suzanne Goddard QC, defending, said there was little that could be said in mitigation. She said Talbot had lost a stone in weight during his time in custody but was 'accustoming himself' to life in jail. Ms Goddard said: 'He knows he must now receive a custodial sentence. He has come to terms with that.' The jury at last month's trial heard that Talbot was 'obsessed' with teenage boys throughout his teaching career and 'could not help himself' around them when under the influence of drink. Among the prosecution witnesses at the trial were The Stone Roses' singer Ian Brown who said Talbot gave masturbation practice as homework. Scroll down for video . Prosecutors said Talbot's modus operandi was to first establish his 'good guy credentials' and then to break down the proper teacher-pupil boundaries, leaving his victims confused as he made his advances. Talbot, of Bowdon, Greater Manchester, was convicted of two counts of indecent assault in relation to two victims and cleared of eight counts of indecent assault in relation to three other complainants. Talbot rose to fame when he presented weather forecasts from his floating map on ITV's This Morning . Four of the complainants were teenage pupils at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, where Talbot taught biology, while the other attended a high school in Gateshead, where the defendant was at teacher training college. The former science teacher denied anything sexual or even inappropriate occurred between himself and the Altrincham pupils, while he said sexual activity with the Gateshead complainant only happened when the boy had turned 16. Both of Talbot's victims were assaulted on school canal barge trips in the Cheshire area in the mid 1970s. The first victim, who thought he was 14 at the time, said the teacher abused him after a mock naked orgy involving up to 10 boys and Talbot. Talbot told him to share a bed with him as there were not enough bunk beds to go round and performed a sex act on him. It emerged that he had previously reported the weatherman to police on four separate occasions dating back to 1992 but no action had been taken. The second victim, who also thought he may have been aged 14 at the time, was abused on another barge trip in similar circumstances. Talbot sat in the dock wearing a purple jumper and grey trousers and was unemotional when sentenced . He said that boys would take turns to sleep in Talbot's bed during the trip and when it was his turn the defendant 'started talking to me about sexual stuff' before indecently assaulting him. The complainant said when he was aged in his late 20s he wrote to ITV Granada to tell them Talbot had abused him. The court heard that Talbot's teaching career came to 'an abrupt end' in May 1984 following an indecent proposal he made to two pupils at his home. He offered his bed for the night to the 15-year-old boys and said to them: 'Make sure you leave room for me in the middle.' Following the verdicts, it can be reported that a number of similar complaints against Talbot about offences said to have been committed in Scotland have been passed by police to the Procurator Fiscal. The offences took place when Talbot was working as a teacher in Altrincham, Greater Manchester . Edinburgh-born Talbot moved at the age of seven to Sale, Greater Manchester, and later studied A-levels at Sale Grammar School. After a spell at teacher training college in the Newcastle area he joined Altrincham Grammar School in 1974. He resigned in disgrace in 1984 and went into television a short time later, with one of his first jobs on a Saturday morning children's show. The investigation was triggered in December 2012 following publicity into a separate historic abuse inquiry at another Altrincham school, St Ambrose College, which led to a nine-year jail term for ex-teacher Alan Morris. Judge Mort told Talbot: 'You are a man of 65 with no previous convictions. You have been convicted by a jury from clear evidence of indecently assaulting two boys when you were a teacher.' The judge outlined the offences and Talbot's background as a teacher. He said Talbot's approach to teaching was 'different' and 'less formal' than other staff members at the school and described him as a 'popular' teacher. He said he may have taken pupils on as many as 38 trips and told Talbot the offences he had been convicted of were not isolated incidents. Judge Mort said: 'You had, on other occasions, abused your position to offend.' The judge said both victims had been affected by the abuse by Talbot, with one suffering from mental health issues since the incident. One of the victims made repeated complaints about Talbot to police before he was charged. Judge Mort said aggravating features included the degree of planning of the offences, the use of alcohol on the victims and the abuse of trust. He said: 'You calculated the boys would be too confused, guilt-ridden or embarrassed to disclose what happened.' Judge Mort sentenced Talbot to two and a half years for each offence, to run consecutively. He said he would serve half his sentence before being considered for release on licence. Ian Brown, the former singer with band The Stone Roses, gave evidence against Talbot during the trial . Investigating officer Detective Chief Inspector Graham Brock from Greater Manchester Police said after the hearing: 'While working as a science teacher Fred Talbot organised many trips with pupils. 'It was during these trips that he plied boys with drink and orchestrated situations to be alone with his victims in order to indecently assault them to feed his own sexual desires. 'You can imagine the excitement of a teenage boy setting off on a canal trip with friends and a teacher, who he should expect to look after him, only to return with his childhood destroyed. 'Put simply, these offences reflect an abhorrent abuse of trust by a man who has proven to have no regard for the innocence of youth he was employed to nurture. 'Had these offences occurred today, they would be considered child sexual exploitation and tackling this heinous crime is the absolute priority for Greater Manchester Police and our partners under Project Phoenix. 'Protecting children is everyone's responsibility and it is crucial that we work together to identify individuals who prey on vulnerable children. More claims against former weatherman revealed: Scottish prosecutors will study new allegations . A judge who jailed Fred Talbot for five years for indecently assaulting two schoolboys when he was a teacher has said details of alleged abuse involving the TV weatherman in Scotland can now be reported. Police investigating incidents of alleged abuse involving Talbot revealed yesterday they had submitted a report to Scottish prosecutors. Neil Usher, prosecuting, made an application to Judge Timothy Mort to lift an order banning reporting of the other alleged offences, which are said to relate to events over a 13-year period, from 1968 to 1981. Talbot, pictured in 1990, is also facing more claims which are now being looked at by Scottish prosecutors . He asked the judge to allow reporting of all that was heard in evidence during Talbot's trial and said he believed it was unlikely there would be further prosecutions in Scotland. Mr Usher said: 'A final decision has not yet been taken as to whether there will be a subsequent prosecution in Scotland. The indications are that's not likely.' Judge Mort said: 'I will lift that restriction.' A report relating to the allegations was received from Police Scotland yesterday and is being considered by the procurator fiscal. A statement from the Crown Office in Scotland said: 'The procurator fiscal has received a report relating to incidents involving a 65-year-old man, said to have occurred between January 1968 and January 1981. 'The report is currently under consideration by the procurator fiscal.'

Famed This Morning weatherman attacked boys when he was a teacher . He indecently assaulted two pupils on school barge trips in 1970s . 65-year-old was convicted of two offences and cleared of eight others . Judge said he used his 'extrovert personality' to endear himself to boys . Talbot jailed for five years today as court hears he's getting used to prison .

 was arrested in a police sting operation in December 2009.
In 2011 he admitted six sexual offences, including indecently assaulting two boys at Redhill County Junior School in Surrey. He also admitted indecently assaulting a man on a school trip to France aged 13. Judge Geoffrey Mercer said Talbot abused the pupils between 1973 and 1976 at his Surrey grammar school. "The victims were children," he said.
"You were a man in your early 20s. One was a child in his early teens." Talbot, now of Brighton, admitted six charges of indecent assault against two boys. He denied three others and was acquitted by a jury at Guildford Crown Court.
A further four charges of indecent assault of a boy aged under 13 were found not proven. "The two complainants were boys at Redhill County Junior School who were in the first year in your class," said the judge. "Their parents both agreed that a child going up to Redhill is going into a safe environment. "These were children between seven and 10. There was a degree of respect of you, so that when a teacher says don't tell, they didn't."
Talbot abused a boy with his hands down his trousers, said the judge. "The boy complained to his father who reported it. That was the catalyst for the whole chain of events that occurred. The other boy was molested during a school trip. "The complainant told his parents and his school headteacher." The incidents were reported to Surrey Police in 2007. "The first victim was told it couldn't be true. It must be someone who is trying to destroy you," said the judge. The boy told the school and the parents went for counselling.
A further allegation was of a boy aged nine, who told his parents in 2005. In his victim impact statement, the boy said: "I feel as though everything in my life has changed. I've tried to forget everything about this but it keeps coming into my mind all the time. I never feel the same about people as before and I'm always worried about my age. I'm now scared to say my age, or that I'm under 16."
Talbot was head of geography at the secondary school. He was also a school governor. Talbot, originally from London, worked in Manchester and became a TV weatherman at BBC Manchester between


Downing Street was last night claiming victory in the battle over the Election TV debates after Ed Miliband was forced to line up with the minnow parties on a ‘night of the non-entities’. Labour reacted with fury when the broadcasters announced – after weeks of wrangling – that neither David Cameron nor Nick Clegg would be invited to the second debate on April 16. Only the non-governing parties will feature, meaning Mr Miliband will appear with the leaders of Ukip, the SNP, the Greens and Plaid Cymru. David Cameron will only appear in one full debate, hosted by ITV on Thursday, April 2, with the six other party leaders . Ed Miliband will have to line up with the minnow parties on a ‘night of the non-entities’ because neither David Cameron nor Nick Clegg will be invited to the second debate on April 16 . Mr Clegg’s absence means that Mr Miliband will not be able to accuse Mr Cameron of being ‘chicken’ by avoiding the exchange, or force the broadcasters to ‘empty chair’ the Prime Minister. No10 has also successfully killed the idea of a direct head-to-head debate between Mr Cameron and Mr Miliband. The two men will instead join Mr Clegg in making individual appearances in front of a studio audience for a BBC Question Time special. It means that Mr Cameron will only appear in one full debate, hosted by ITV on Thursday, April 2, with the six other party leaders. The announcement of the broadcasters’ final plans represents a triumph for Downing Street strategists, who did not want the Election campaign to be dominated by the debates, as it was in 2010, on the grounds that Mr Miliband’s stock is already so low with the public he had the least to lose. But the Lib Dems have described the final arrangements as a ‘farce’. And Labour issued an angry statement accusing the broadcasters of reneging on a commitment to proceed with the head-to-head debate programme after ‘weeks of pressure from the Conservative Party’, insisting that the ‘cowardice’ of Mr Cameron had thwarted the head-to-head encounter. Labour also claimed that Mr Clegg had been excluded from the April 16 debate ‘at the Conservative Party’s insistence’ to provide cover for the PM’s absence. Labour has claimed that Nick Clegg (pictured) had been excluded from the April 16 debate ‘at the Conservative Party’s insistence’ to provide cover for the PM’s absence . Ukip leader Nigel Farage areacted angrily, saying TV debates were now 'so far from the original proposals' A Labour spokesman said: ‘The whole country will understand the reasons for this: the Prime Minister wants to minimise the scope of televised debates between himself and Ed Miliband. ‘We hope that even at this late stage David Cameron will rethink his decision not to take part on April 16. ‘The Prime Minister’s repeated attempts to dictate the abandonment of these TV programmes to independent broadcasters is deeply worrying.’ The spokesman added that after the Election Labour would seek to put future debate programmes on a statutory footing. Ukip leader Nigel Farage also reacted angrily, saying: ‘TV debates are now so far from the original proposals. Broadcasters should be ashamed. They’ve kow-towed to manipulation from Downing Street.’ In a joint statement, the BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 said: ‘We’re delighted there will be a debate with all the party leaders during the campaign. The debate on April 2 will build on the success of the 2010 TV debates so valued by viewers.’ A Lib Dem spokesman said: ‘If it was down to us, we would be in every TV debate. But the politicians and broadcasters have ducked and dived on this long enough and need to get on with it. Frankly this is all a farce’. A No10 spokesman said: ‘We have agreed to the broadcasters’ proposal.’

Only non-governing parties to feature in second televised debate in April . Ed Miliband will appear with leaders of Ukip, SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru . David Cameron will appear in one full debate with six other party leaders .

 that the debates, a vital plank of the party’s election strategy, would not be taking place after all.
Senior sources claimed that Mr Miliband had been effectively blackmailed into joining Nick Clegg, Natalie Bennett of the Green Party and Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood on the ‘night of the non-entities’.
Downing Street insiders said Mr Miliband’s threat to boycott the ITV-hosted programme if it did not include the Scottish National Party had given the TV networks just enough leverage to ‘push the Lib Dems forward’. A senior BBC source admitted that Ms Wood, whom the broadcasters had previously decided to exclude, could have been on the ‘night of the non-entities’ if she’d been allowed to get on the television.
Downing Street was reported as claiming that it had achieved ‘victory’ in the row with the broadcasters after the BBC had previously agreed to host a debate between Mr Miliband and the Lib Dems. The decision by the broadcasters to pull the plug, Downing Street said, was because of Mr Miliband’s ‘pivotal role’ in saving the corporation from making it a ‘puppet’ in the election campaign.
The Prime Minister appeared to confirm the claims in an interview with a tabloid newspaper which attacked Mr Miliband as ‘obsessed’ by the election debates and criticised ITV’s decision to take no part in the TV programmes.
Downing Street sources said that Mr Cameron had ‘stirred the pot of public anger’ over the debate snubbing. The Prime Minister told The Sun: ‘It was clear Ed Miliband is obsessed with getting on to these TV debates. It was very clear that Ed Miliband had spent a lot of time, effort and energy, in the middle of a campaign, talking about these election debates. What he needs to realise is these election debates happen all the time and he’s obsessed with one of them. And if he’s obsessed with one, it’s a pretty good indication of who he is – obsessed.’
Mr Cameron added: ‘He’s been obsessed with being in television debates but he hasn’t been so obsessed with the things that make life easier for you and me.’
Mr Miliband, meanwhile, was forced to admit that the absence of the Liberal Democrats could mean that his Labour Party could be left as ‘the big kid in the playground’ being


A Chelsea fan on Twitter - @TalkoftheBridge – tweeted recently: 'I dread the day John Terry retires more than I dread my own death.' At first it makes shocking reading, but when you factor in the extreme passion of football fans, the love they have for their club, and the astonishingly high regard Chelsea fans have for their captain, it all makes sense. It should be interpreted in the same way as Bill Shankly’s famous quote: 'Football is not a matter of life and death, it’s more important that that.' Here’s another way of saying it. Chelsea will not be able to replace Terry when he finally retires. England have had to move on already. But the question remains, how on earth will Chelsea cope when the inevitable happens? Life and Chelsea Football Club will go on of course, but reflecting on yet another incredible man-of-the-match performance from Terry at Wembley, it occurred to me that he is unique. John Terry and Jose Mourinho celebrate on the Wembley pitch after Chelsea's win on Sunday . Not so long ago some were declaring Terry was finished. He couldn’t train properly, we were told. He couldn’t play two games in a week apparently. The truth is very different. Andre Villas-Boas' ridiculous high line ensured this over-hyped manager got the worst from Terry and made the player look vulnerable. And then Rafa Benitez arrived to seemingly finish off the destruction of arguably Chelsea’s greatest ever player. Jose Mourinho has resurrected the King of Stamford Bridge. It is now a major cause for concern among Chelsea fans if Terry isn’t in the starting line-up. So in playing terms, he is still the first name on the team sheet, even with the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Diego Costa, Nemanja Matic and Eden Hazard at the club. But the love for Terry among Chelsea fans is about so much more than him being a very good centre half. And that’s why he is seemingly irreplaceable. Terry beat Hugo Lloris to score Chelsea's crucial first goal in the Capital One Cup final . The Blues captain ran off to celebrate after breaking the deadlock at Wembley... And he led the celebrations at the end as the Chelsea players partied after winning the League Cup . He came through the youth ranks, and is now a revered Chelsea captain. His team-mates respect him, and they listen to him. The fans still idolise him. The football world laughed when he lifted the Champions League trophy with his full kit on despite being suspended for that final. But most if not all Chelsea fans understood it. Terry was a huge part of that journey, and in their minds he belonged on that podium, he deserved the champagne, and he deserved to be wearing the shirt that night as the celebrations began. The cynics and critics will go on and on about Terry’s indiscretions – some alleged, some not. He’s far from perfect of course, a bit like the rest of us. And I wouldn’t say Chelsea fans don’t care about any of that stuff. But it doesn’t hide the fact that when he does decide to retire, there will be a massive Grand Canyon to fill. The Chelsea captain celebrates after they beat Bayern Munich to win the Champions League in 2012 . I’m not a Chelsea fan, so I asked three friends of mine who are to sum it up. A work colleague, Emma, said this: 'He is our rock, our leader, without him we don’t win all those titles and we love him for how much he gives his all to the shirt. You can imagine cutting him and his blood would spill out blue. Every other fan hates him but knows deep down they would love him in their team.' Another friend, Laura used the cliche – 'Mr Chelsea' to describe him, and then went on: 'You can see what the team and the club mean to him. His reactions after every game, he always comes over to the Matthew Harding Lower and gets the rest of the team over as well to applaud the fans. A few games ago he signed my shirt, got on the team coach, then got off again and offered a family tickets as he thought he’d heard them say they had travelled but couldn’t get in to the game. It’s a side of him that shows what the fans mean to him and a side that not enough people and media see.' Another colleague, the ex-Chelsea defender Jason Cundy, told me this: 'John is the best ever CFC youth product, best ever CFC centre back, and most successful captain ever. He’s still so important to the club on and off the field – captain, leader, legend. With so many foreign players at CFC, and so few homegrown players to come through over the last 15 years, he represents the fans on the pitch and plays with the same passion, pride and love for CFC that we fans have in the stands for the club. It will be impossible to replace him.' Enough said. Terry and his Chelsea team-mates celebrate winning their first Premier League title in 2005 .

John Terry was man of the match as Chelsea won the Capital One Cup . Terry is on course to lift his fourth Premier League title as captain . Has been a mainstay throughout most successful period in club's history . Chelsea have a huge task replacing Terry when he eventually retires . READ: Terry admits he's fighting for his family's future at Chelsea . CLICK HERE for all the latest Chelsea news .

 levels of sentimentality in our national psyche, it actually makes perfect sense.
Terry has long been considered an emblem of Chelsea FC - for many of us he is synonymous with our great club, the one he has been a part of since he signed as a 14-year-old prodigy from local rivals QPR back in 1996.
Chelsea FC has provided us with some of the game's greatest names, but it was not just on the pitch we saw such brilliance. It is the character of the club and its fans that has really stood out - the sheer levels of emotional commitment from the Chelsea faithful are unique. They are truly like a family and they have loved John Terry with every atom of their being.
To me it's clear that this is not a mere platitude but something to be embraced. Chelsea is a family of its own, we've lived as one for 150 years, and will continue to do so well into our future. When you think about the family, the first person you think of is a parent, and there is nobody more loved by his son as is John Terry by his fans.
In many ways John Terry is 'one of us' – his commitment and loyalty to the club knows no bounds. To describe him as a 'legend' is almost cliched – no matter, he is more than a legend, he is a family man, a family's hero, to Chelsea FC and its fans he is loved beyond measure.
There is nothing false about John Terry or how he has conducted himself over the years. He has stayed loyal to the club, a fact he has emphasised in the face of fierce opposition from other clubs during his career. And Chelsea fans have had every right to expect something special from John Terry when he retired – he is a man who has given so much to the club, so they have no right to want more, yet we do, and with good reason.
If Chelsea FC truly was a family, then what makes John Terry so special? He is a family's hero and that is no exaggeration. There is just something in a man that can so endear him to you that goes beyond the football field. John Terry has been our great rock for over 17 years; even when Chelsea FC was facing ruin in the 1990s, Terry was there as a beacon, inspiring and giving hope to those who needed it.
There is also a certain nobility about John Terry'


As the part-time players of managerless Alloa Athletic punched the air in celebration of their latest point against Rangers, the scale of the job facing Stuart McCall veered into sharp focus. Frankly, the new Ibrox boss faces the biggest uphill task since Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Everest if he is to succeed in getting this bunch of players back to the summit league of Scottish football. On a night when Alloa left their shock new signing — ex-Sunderland and Newcastle striker Michael Chopra — on the bench until the dying embers of the match, a glancing header by former Chelsea kid Ben Gordon opened the scoring and had Rangers on the back foot. Rangers' Lee Wallace and Alloa's Jonathan Tiffoney tussle for the ball during the match at Ibrox . Rangers forward Dean Shiels challenges Alloa's Kevin Crawley during the Scottish Championship game . Alloa's new signing, former Sunderland and Newcastle striker Michael Chopra, made his debut at Irbox . Two goals from Nicky Clark in five minutes looked like somehow securing a rare victory for a stodgy and lethargic Rangers but Liam Buchanan’s late leveller ensured deserved parity for the team from the Wee County. It was merely the latest sting from the Wasps, who have now drawn twice at Ibrox in the league this season, as well as holding Rangers at home in the Championship and knocking them out of the Petrofac Training Cup in Clackmannanshire. For Ibrox fans, the elation of Dave King’s boardroom coup has very much been replaced by the utter deflation that comes as standard when watching this side. Indeed, when McCall’s team travels to Easter Road on Sunday hoping to keep their play-off hopes alive, the second-most expensively assembled squad in the country can be said to pitch up in Leith in the grip of relegation-esque form. Over the course of the last nine games — a quarter of a league season — third-placed Rangers have dropped 19 points from an available 27. In context, they have picked up eight points, while second-bottom Alloa and rock-bottom Livingston — who drew at Ibrox on Saturday — both have amassed six over the same time period. Rangers' Nicky Law gives chase to Alloa's Mark Docherty during the Scottish Championship match at Ibrox . And, worryingly for McCall, not even five changes to his starting line-up could inject any badly-needed urgency into proceedings. There was a first-team recall for goalkeeper Cammy Bell, who was pulling on a Rangers jersey for the first time in seven months after recovering from a shoulder injury. That meant Lee Robinson was on the bench, with veteran keeper Steve Simonson dropping out of the squad altogether. Injuries meant Rangers were without defender Sebastian Faure and attacking midfielder Haris Vuckic, who has been one of the Ibrox club’s best players since arriving on loan from Newcastle United. Striker Kenny Miller dropped to the bench, while Kyle Hutton found himself left out of the squad completely. But the team news that stood out was Chopra, who took his place on the bench and would remain there for most of the evening. Rangers' Andy Murdoch and Alloa's Kevin Crawley both raise their feet for the ball during the 2-2 draw . In front of a crowd of 28,902, the first chance fell to Rangers. Lee Wallace raced down the left and his cross found its way to Clark, who turned and shot over the bar. Then captain Lee McCulloch seized on a corner and, when his first effort was blocked, his subsequent shot went out for a throw-in. The grumbles from the Ibrox stands began on 12 minutes. With each passing minute they grew louder. But young Tom Walsh gave them something to get excited about when he picked up a pass from Dean Shiels and sent a 20-yarder narrowly over the top of Craig McDowall’s crossbar. Kris Boyd then had a chance after good work down the left from Shiels. But his turn and shot ended with the ball being fired straight down McDowall’s throat. Young Andrew Murdoch then had a firm shot saved easily by McDowall. In the best move of the match, Walsh powered down the right and slipped a clever ball into the overlapping Wallace, but the full-back’s ball across goal was turned over his own bar by Michael Doyle. On a rare foray up the park, Kevin Cawley sent a weak right-foot shot from distance scampering wide of Bell’s goal. It had been a listless first half and the jeers at half-time were from fans who sounded wearily accustomed to this type of fare. Alloa defender Ben Gordon opens the scoring at Ibrox with a header past goalkeeper Cammy Bell . Gordon is congratulated by his team-mates after his goal gives the part-timers a shock lead at Ibrox . Rangers striker Nicky Clark equalised for the home side with a header of his own on 72 minutes . He then added a second five minutes later to give Rangers the lead against Alloa on Tuesday night . Clark celebrates his second goal Alloa player look frustrated with themselves for conceding . Despite Clark's brace, Rangers go on to draw 2-2 and interim boss Stuart McCall knows the scale of his job . There were more jeers at the start of the second half when the Ibrox support were beseeching their side to show some attacking urgency, only for Darren McGregor to take the safe option of a back-pass from the halfway line to keeper Bell. Worse was to follow when Alloa scored with their first meaningful effort on goal. Michael Docherty’s free-kick was glanced home by Gordon as Ibrox was left stunned, but not surprised. ‘Cancel their day off this week anaw Stuart,’ shouted a furious lone voice at the back of the Bill Struth Main Stand. Rangers nearly levelled with a header from Marius Zalkiukas but McDowall was equal to it as he pulled off a diving save. McCall’s side got back into it, however, when McCulloch’s deflected shot hit the bar and Clark cleverly diverted the ball with his head into the bottom corner past the stranded McDowall. Clark then thought he had won the match when he headed in a fine cross from the left by substitute David Templeton. Buchanan’s intervention in the 82nd minute, when he superbly chipped the ball over Bell and into the net, put paid to that idea. Buchanan was replaced by Chopra in the 95th minute but there was no time for the journeyman, who has cost £9.5million in transfer fees over the course of his troubled career, to become a hero. But, as the Alloa players milked their standing ovation from their hardy bunch of fans, the jeers and shouts of ‘disgrace’ that greeted the Rangers players at the final whistle left everyone in no doubt who, once again, were the villains of the piece. Rangers players look dejected after the final whistle as their hopes of promotion continue to fade away .

Rangers were held to a draw by part-time players of Alloa Athletic at Ibrox . Ben Gordon gave Alloa the lead before Nicky Clark equalised . Clark then grabbed a second goal to put Rangers in front . However, Liam Buchanan managed to pull the visitors level late on . New Alloa signing Michael Chopra was only afforded a cameo appearance .

 job of his career.
Having gone back to basics, McCall and his players produced a performance of genuine spirit and endeavour. And it was that spirit that gave them their reward when a James Allan corner found its way home. Yet, despite a display of heart, McCall’s men could not shake off a Rangers outfit who are looking in fine fettle themselves.
It was the first league meeting between the two sides since Alloa were pipped to promotion from the Championship at the end of the 2015-16 season, a 13th minute penalty from Jermain Defoe securing a 1-0 win for Rangers that sent the hosts tumbling into the Third Division.
A lot has happened since then. Rangers have won the title four times on the spin and are on course for another – Mark Warburton having gone – and Alloa, under the management of McCall, have dropped back to this tier. Meanwhile, the Rangers manager Gio Van Bronckhorst has become Warburton’s assistant at Ibrox and the Dutchman watched as his old side battled back from Allan’s 11th goal of the season to claim a dramatic late point.
“It was a great finish from James,” McCall, still looking for his first win at the club in his second managerial stint, said. “The players have shown plenty of spirit and that is all you can ask. We can’t keep putting ourselves in this position where we are reliant on other results to get us out of here. We are a good enough team to be in the top flight, so now I have to work with the players I have and get us going in the right direction. We need to stop conceding goals.”
McCall was delighted to have kept his players together, unlike their previous managerial set up under interim boss Sandy Clark, who split the dressing room in the close-season by sacking assistant Gordon Dalzell. The new boss hopes that togetherness will carry them through.
“It was vital that we kept the players together from last season,” McCall said. “That is going to stand us in good stead in terms of spirit. We have to stick together and now we have to show the spirit to get ourselves out of this. The players have bought into that today and I said to them afterwards that they have nothing to be ashamed of. We did our best and it is up to me as a manager now to keep working hard with the players. There


(CNN)The Iran nuclear negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, reportedly have made substantive progress, inching closer toward a provisional agreement between the P5+1 and Iran. While the talks continued to unfold this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restated his concern about an agreement with Iran, vowing "to continue to act against any threat." If an agreement is reached, the international spotlight will turn to Israel, in anticipation of its possible reaction. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe "Bogy" Yaalon stated that a deal is "a tragedy for the whole world."  The question is, however, what can Israel really do once a deal is signed? In recent days, notable conservatives in the United States have attacked President Barack Obama's handling of the negotiations with Iran, arguing that a bad deal will force Israel's hand, leaving it with no choice but to attack Iranian targets. But is this a realistic conclusion? Israel's stated "all options are on the table" policy toward Iran has been in place for years and is based on the assumption that if a diplomatic solution to the nuclear problem cannot be reached or is not to its liking, Israel can decide to opt for a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Thirty-four years after the successful Israeli bombing of the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq, military experts have little doubt that the Israeli Air Force today is capable of reaching Iranian airspace and bombing targets above and below ground. Therefore, the question is not one of military capability but more about  domestic political and geopolitical strategy. With an Iran deal in place, the Israeli leadership may face stern objections from the heads of the Israeli defense establishment, which will make it difficult but not impossible to take such a decision. Nevertheless, if it remains keen on pursuing a military option, the Israeli leadership will have to consider the following set of consequences that will likely result from such a decision: . •A successful military strike on Iranian installations may degrade Iran's nuclear program, setting it back several years, but it would not completely eliminate Iran's nuclear capabilities.   Iran would likely be able to resume activity in new facilities soon after such an attack, with more international legitimacy to embark on a military nuclear program, in the face of future military challenges to its sovereignty and stability. A deal between the P5+1 (the United States, China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and Germany) and Iran is expected to include a 10-year (or more) "sunset provision" that is much longer than the period it will take Iran to get its program back on track in case of an Israeli attack. •A military attack against Iran after a deal is signed would put Israel on a collision course with the P5+ 1, who were negotiating the contours of a deal with Iran, as well as with other members of the international community. Bilateral ties and cooperation with member states of the P5+1 may suffer, as well as intelligence sharing between the relevant intelligence agencies. In addition, countries are likely to seek ways to "punish" Israel for its actions, in the form of a U.N. General Assembly or Security Council resolution condemning Israeli behavior, calling for operative measures against the Jewish state. •An Israeli attack would likely lead to the collapse of the international sanctions regime on Iran, which Israel has worked  to consolidate and which has been a very effective mechanism in pressuring Iran. •The understanding between Israel and moderate Arab regimes on the need to prevent a nuclear Iran would not be likely to dissipate in the aftermath of an attack, but Israeli-Arab coordination and cooperation on this issue is bound to suffer. •Finally, an Israeli attack would spark a direct Iranian military reaction against Israel, as well as an indirect reaction against Israel in the region by Iran's proxies Hezbollah (from Southern Lebanon and war-torn Syria) and Hamas (from Gaza and perhaps the West Bank) and against Israeli targets abroad. In the aftermath of a deal with Iran, Israel's response is expected to be harsh.  It will include strong public criticism of the deal, a vow to continue the fight against the agreement in the U.S. Congress and other relevant venues, a call for the international community to continue  the sanctions regime, and a pursuit of coordinated public messaging with moderate Arab regimes on this issue. These Israeli public diplomacy measures will be complemented by continued intelligence monitoring of Iran's activities in the nuclear sphere as well as its involvement in regional conflicts. Opting for a military strike against Iran, however, must take into consideration the consequences of such a decision. In light of all that is at stake, it does not seem like a plausible option at present.

Dan Arbell: Israel's leaders can criticize a potential deal with Iran on its nuclear program . He says a military option could set back Iran's nuclear program but would be too costly politically and diplomatically .

 warned of the threat a nuclear Iran could pose.
In response, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted on Monday that "Iranians are fed up with #Israeli threats," adding, "We won't be pushed around."
So how bad are things getting between these two countries?
"The Iran-Israel conflict is the greatest cause of tension and animosity in the Muslim world," according to the Brookings Institute. The relationship between the two countries was strained when Iranian leaders, in 2005, called for the destruction of Israel and, last week, an official of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed that "Israel is a non-state actor, and the Zionist regime is just like any other terrorist group. This regime must be eliminated."
In 2006, the BBC reports, Israel and Iran exchanged fire after Israeli forces killed two Iranian border guards. Israeli air strikes killed 15 in response.
This isn't the first time Israel has accused Iran of attempting to develop a nuclear weapon. Israel's president, Shimon Peres, said that the P5+1 are "being too strict" on the deadline for a nuclear agreement.
"The Iranians are saying the same thing as the Israelis: 'You can't do this because we're going to break out anyway,' " Peres said.
"The fact of the matter is that Israel doesn't want a war but will go to war," he added, citing an Israeli military official who told him, "The IAF (Israel Air Force) is ready."
"The only possible explanation is that he thinks the Israelis will act alone," Peres said.
Netanyahu said a nuclear Iran would pose a "direct and existential threat to Israel's existence" and that the P5+1 should not negotiate a deal that fails to address "the core of the problem."
Iranian negotiators, however, say that their country is a peaceful one and that they are willing to negotiate.
"We have a saying that there is no need to go to the battle field to fight with your friend; it would be better to sit down around the table to resolve the differences," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari said in March during a United Nations Security Council meeting.
"We are seeking a solution through negotiations," he added.
The main sticking point for the negotiators, says Jabari Ansari, "is