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I don't blame Netenyahu for having his boxers in a major bunch. I wouldn't want my neighbors who have vowed to wipe my country off the face of the earth to have the opportunity to proceed with nuclear development.

Sniped from the Washington Post (full article below):

Negotiators then haggled over whether the final agreement would recognize Iran’s “right” to enrich uranium. Zarif and his team repeatedly insisted that they needed explicit language about enrichment in the text in order to sell the deal back home. The U.S. rejected any mention of an enrichment “right” and pushed for vague language referring to Iran’s ability to seek peaceful nuclear power in a “mutually defined” way.

“In the end, we were negotiating over a small number of words,” said a U.S. official familiar with the discussions.

I don't know, seems like important words. I hope that we have a rock solid means of monitoring this but I'm doubtful. Nothing is foolproof.

I think Obama has entirely changed (for the time being) our relationship with Israel. I guess it depends on how much you/we value that relationship as to how much we care. Israel is kind of our bitch so I don't see any major fall out from it but I don't think the President and Netenyahu playing golf any time soon. I don't think Israel would move against either Iran or Syria without our support so they're kind of fucked at this point.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nati...ory_1.html