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Iran Deal Looms as U.S. Defense Secretary Meets with Netanyahu
(New York Times) Helene Cooper and Jodi Rudoren - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter huddled for more than an hour behind closed doors in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Carter later said that "the prime minister made it quite clear that he disagreed with us on the nuclear deal with Iran. But friends can disagree." Dore Gold, the director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, noted that "any discourse about the Iranian agreement has to be done through mutual respect" because "the United States is a very important ally of Israel." Gold said Israel's primary strategy would be "to tell the truth" about the agreement. Gold cited as Israel's primary concerns the deal's 24-day wait for inspections of undeclared sites and the freedom for Iran to develop long-range weapons, as well the broader issue of pumping money into a nation that calls for Israel's destruction and finances terror.