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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us/politics/netanyahu-speech-to-congress-obama-iran-nuclear-talks.html?_r=0

Netanyahu Speech Raises Burden for Obama on Iran Nuclear Talks

(New York Times) Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear - President Obama's task of selling a potential nuclear agreement with Iran to a skeptical Congress became far harder on Tuesday after an impassioned speech by Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel to lawmakers already nervous about the deal. "The president has a very heavy burden of persuasion here," said former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, a Democrat and onetime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who now directs Indiana University's Center on Congress. "That task is made much more difficult when a powerful case is stated against the emerging deal, as the prime minister has done."

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