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May 15, 2012

In Iran Talks, Ehud Barak Is Man to Watch

Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

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Obama believes that Barak, and not Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is the Israeli leader agitating most vociferously for a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, a strike the Obama administration thinks would be grossly premature and quite possibly catastrophic.

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