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Israeli Ambassador: "Our Margin for Error Is So Small"
(Washington Post) Joby Warrick - Retiring Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren discussed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in an interview: "Here you have an Iranian leader who comes from inside the regime - he was chosen by the supreme leader as one of the selected candidates. He has boasted in the past that he has lied to the West, that he smiled and installed centrifuges." "We do believe that a diplomatic solution can be reached. But it can only be reached on the basis of the Iranians actually doing something....Diplomacy has been going on for decades. The position of the international community has moved and become consistently more flexible. And the Iranian position has not moved a millimeter." "For us, the Iranian nuclear program is an existential issue....If Iran gets the bomb, they're going to put it on top of a rocket, and the rocket will be fired at Israel....We're a very small country. As the Iranian moderate [former president Akbar Hashemi] Rafsanjani has said, 'Israel is a one-bomb country.' And we are."