(Reuters) Jeff Mason - Iran must commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years on sensitive nuclear activity for an atomic deal to be reached, but the odds are still against sealing a final agreement, U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview on Monday. Obama moved to dial back tensions over Prime Minister Netanyahu's planned speech to Congress on Tuesday opposing the Iran deal, saying it was a distraction that would not be "permanently destructive" to U.S.-Israeli ties. But he stressed there was a "substantial disagreement" between them over how to achieve their shared goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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