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Source: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/deadline-iran-nuclear-talks-yuval-steinitz-obama-118662.html
Deadline for Nuclear Talks with Iran May Be Softening
(Politico) Michael Crowley and Nahal Toosi - With a June 30 deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran approaching, Western experts and foreign allies - including a top Israeli official - are urging the Obama administration not to treat that date as sacred for fear of giving Tehran leverage in the talks. "The Iranians are using delay tactics. It seems they want to come close to the deadline without an agreement," Yuval Steinitz, Israel's energy minister, said Thursday. If that happens, "there will be no time to close all the loopholes and clarify all the details. And this will serve the Iranians." "The administration in my view should not feel under any particular pressure to get a deal by June 30," said Gary Samore, who worked on the issue at the Obama White House until 2013. "To the extent the Iranians try to use the deadline for bargaining leverage, we should ignore it."