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Iran nuclear talks could benefit from shift in Israel

Would Israel consider a nuclear deal with Iran similar to the 1974 and 1975 Egypt-Israel disengagement agreements?
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani (R) and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrive for a meeting during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 22, 2014.                 REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND  - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)   - RTX17PYK

While the focus of US attention is on how to craft an agreement defining Iran’s nuclear program, the broader issue of Iran’s hostility toward Israel has long been at the center of the US-Iran divide.

No real reconciliation between the United States and Iran is likely while Iran is seen as an implacable foe of the most important American ally in the Middle East — a country derided in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution as the “lesser Satan” to America’s “Great Satan.”

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