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JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli cabinet minister on Monday said Iran must be forced to face an existential question over its nuclear drive: choose between getting an atomic bomb, or survival.

“We believe that in order to stop the Iranian military nuclear project, the regime in Tehran should face a dilemma — whether to have a bomb or to survive,” Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon told reporters in Jerusalem.

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Yaalon said however it was for the international community, rather than Israel, to apply what he called an “achievable” policy.

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“We prefer that the international community led by the United States will bring about this dilemma in order to convince the regime to give up its military nuclear programme,” he said, stressing the need for political isolation and economic sanctions aimed at the banking and oil sectors.

Israel and much of the international community fear that Iran’s nuclear programme masks a drive for a weapons capability.