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Israel's Least Bad Options the Day After the Iran Deal

| August 26, 2015

Barring extraordinary circumstances, next month U.S. President Obama will successfully sustain a veto of a Congressional resolution against the nuclear agreement between six world powers and Iran, and the deal will be sealed. But in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opposition to the agreement continues unabated. What he expects to achieve by fighting the deal to the bitter end is still a mystery.

It is, however, already abundantly clear that considerable work is needed to repair the U.S.-Israel bilateral relationship, which has been frayed by the negotiations with Iran and Netanyahu's attempts to derail them....

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For Academic Citation: Freilich, Chuck.“Israel's Least Bad Options the Day After the Iran Deal.” World Politics Review, August 26, 2015.

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Chuck Freilich

Chuck Freilich

  • Former Senior Fellow, International Security Program, January 2006–October 2019
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