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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Israel: Israeli leaks are damaging efforts to halt Iran's nuclear program

Haaretz

U.S. official: Israeli leaks are damaging efforts to halt Iran's nuclear program

by Barak Ravid 

Former chief of Israeli intelligence Amos Yadlin writes in the Washington Post that Obama must visit Jerusalem and convince the Knesset and the Israeli public that the U.S. is committed to preventing the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon.

U.S. officials say Israeli leaders are sincere about the need to act quickly on Iran, but they do not think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made the decision to strike. Rather, the Israeli leader is trying to pressure the United States. “They are deadly serious, as is the president, about the need to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon,” a senior U.S. official told the Washington Post. “But there has been far too much talking — background leaks and fabrications — that hurt the cause.” 

On Saturday, Amos Yadlin, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence, called in a Washington Post article for President Barack Obama to visit Jerusalem in order to convey to the Israeli public that he is committed to halting Iran's nuclear program, including with military means. 

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