Obama Aides Said to Undermine Netanyahu to Win Iran Nuclear Deal
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The Obama administration is taking an unusually hard line against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to diminish his influence on nuclear talks with Iran and hurt his standing at home, a U.S. official said.
That approach is part political and part strategic. President Barack Obama and his team don’t care for Netanyahu, and they’d like to weaken him to help parties to the political left of his Likud Party in his March 17 re-election bid.