Clinton Highlights Gaps between U.S. and Israel on Iran

(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Differences between Israel and the U.S. over the world powers' negotiating strategy with Iran came into the open Thursday when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked of the need for Iran to come to nuclear talks ready to curb its enrichment of uranium to 20% purity. In recent days Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear that he does not believe curbing enrichment to 20% is sufficient, and that in previous talks with the Iranians the world demanded that it stop all its enrichment, even to 3.5%. One government official said that the international community was well aware that Israel did not think what was currently being asked of the Iranians was enough.


2012-06-08 00:00:00

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