(New York Times) Isabel Kershner - Yuval Steinitz, a Likud minister, told Israel Radio on Sunday that the main reason for tensions with Washington was "the strong disagreement we have with the United States over the Iran issue." Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN who was a formal adviser to Netanyahu and spoke to him over the weekend, said that the core of what he described as "cool winds blowing" from Washington was Iran, not the Palestinian issue. "They're about to cut a deal with Tehran and they know that Israel has serious reservations about the substance of that agreement." Gold expressed confidence that relations would soon be repaired, if only because of other regional realities. "In the past we've had similar tensions over aspects of the peace process, and ultimately the region forced us into surmounting our differences and working together as allies."
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