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Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/netanyahu-israel-victory-iran/404965/
Netanyahu's Victory over Iran
(Atlantic) Jeffrey Goldberg - For more than a decade, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has played by far the largest role in focusing the attention of the great powers on the threat of a nuclear Iran. His single-minded, insistent lobbying led to the application of crippling, multilateral sanctions on Iran that brought Iran to the negotiating table where Iran's leaders eventually agreed to a set of limitations and controls on the country's nuclear program which, if properly implemented, reduce the chance that Israel will find itself the target of an Iranian nuclear weapon for many years to come. Netanyahu, of course, doesn't see this agreement as a victory for Israel. His complaint is with the notion that one can deal with Iran.