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Renegades Prolong U.S.-Iran Rapprochement

Jan 23, 2015 | 21:11 GMT

Renegades Prolong the Journey Toward a U.S.-Iran Rapprochement
(From L) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and U.S. President Barack Obama.

(Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images, Spencer Platt/Getty Images, JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Summary

The United States, Iran and Israel all face rebels within their camps as U.S. and Iranian negotiating teams try to reach an agreement on Iran's nuclear program ahead of a July deadline. The increasingly visible challenges to the U.S.-Iranian diplomatic endeavor may not be strong enough to derail a slow-moving normalization between Washington and Tehran, but they will collectively raise enough doubt and complications to drag the process out beyond 2015.

Forces opposed to a rapprochement between Washington and Tehran might not derail talks but will try to slow them down....

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