(New York Times) Isabel Kershner and Rick Gladstone - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks Tuesday that not drawing "red lines" for Iran are a signal to the Iranians that they could build atomic bombs with impunity, laid bare the underlying tensions between the U.S. and Israel over how to deal with Iran. The Israeli government's worries about Iran were further elevated last month when the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had sharply increased its capacity to enrich uranium at a subterranean site in Qom. Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, said, "It is very important to draw a line about the quantities of enriched uranium and the levels of enrichment." Israeli experts say that for Israel, all the previous red lines have been crossed already and that setting more lines might be meaningless, because international intelligence agencies may not know immediately if Iran has overstepped them.
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