Frenemy: a story of Iran, Israel and the United States

In order to understand the Iranian nuclear negotiations you need to understand the trilateral relationship between the United States Israel and Iranat first blush it seems very simple the United States and Israel are allies they're both opposed to Iran but the way these negotiations have gone down severely complicated the matter to understand why we need to look at the individual personalities that are involved in negotiationsfirst off and perhaps most importantly as president 

Obama resolving the Iranian nuclear standoff peacefully as a major foreign policy priority for president Obama however it's difficult to resolve given supreme leader Ayatollah Ali hamait's rather hostile to western interests specifically the United States however while he does have final control over the Iranian government he can be pushed by a factions inside Iran specifically more moderate ones that are interested in sanctions relief in exchange for a deal president Haas AMR honey is widely seen as the one of these moderate figures and his twenty thirteen elections suggested to many Americans that Iran and the supreme leader might be willing to make a dealthis has infuriated america's ally in israel's prime minister Benjamin 

Netanyahu sees the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat we need a better deal a different deal because this deal would leave Iransufficient capability six thousand seven futures enables them to break out too a bomb very quickly this is putting Netanyahu at odds with Obama in order to deal with this disagreement he's turned to Republicans in the United States i've invited prime minister of IsraelBenjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress that's why this deal is so bad it doesn't block he runs path to the bomb it paves iran's path to the ball forty seven Republican senators put their names to dayto this open letter to Iran this type of alliance between a foreign leader and domestic American opposition is basically unprecedented so you've got a strange situation where the United States is at loggerheads with its closest 

Ally in the middle eastthe United States is divided amongst itself on foreign policy and where you've got president Obama desperately trying to bolster the standing of moderates inside Iran a country the United States has regarded as a serious enemysince nineteen seventy nine

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