|
Trending Topics
|
Source: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/iran-deal-susan-rice-israel-213227?o=0
How Obama Got to "Yes" on Iran: The Inside Story
(Politico) Dennis Ross - When President Obama visited Israel in March 2013, Prime Minister Netanyahu would say, "I'm absolutely convinced that the president is determined to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And I appreciate that." That firm confidence lapsed by the time of my meeting with the prime minister on Nov. 8 of that year. In the intervening time, Hassan Rouhani had been elected president in Iran and the U.S. had opened a back channel to the Iranians. Over the course of 2014, as the administration showed its readiness to accept an industrial-scale Iranian nuclear program and not roll it back, the gap with the Israelis reemerged, and Netanyahu became far more outspoken in his criticism of a possible deal.