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Netanyahu's 10 lessons to be learned on Iran

There are 10 reasons for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abandon his fight over the deal with Iran and concentrate his efforts to restore relations with the Obama administration.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves after delivering a statement at his office in Jerusalem November 24, 2013. Netanyahu on Sunday denounced the world powers' nuclear agreement with Iran as a historic mistake that left the production of atomic weapons within Tehran's reach. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX15R0J
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The agreement was achieved. Anyone with eyes in his head could have written this predictable and inevitable scenario the moment that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rose to the UN dais to deliver a conciliatory speech, then softened public opinion in the interviews he gave to all possible media outlets in the United States.

Those with especially good prognostication skills could have predicted that Iran would achieve its nuclear-project settlement the moment that Rouhani was elected and promised his nation, mainly the youths who elected him — to Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s sorrow — that his main mission was to remove the sanctions that are choking Iran.

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