President Barack Obama pushed back on Tuesday against suggestions that Washington was on the cusp of making a decision about possible military action against Iran, pledging to take a ’sober’ approach to dealing with Iran’s nuclear program.
Amid mounting speculation that Israel could attack Iran’s nuclear sites in coming months, Obama said that American politicians ’beating the drums of war’ had a responsibility to explain the costs and benefits of military action.
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Later, addressing the influential pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, Netanyahu said: “None of us can afford to wait much longer. As prime minister of Israel, I will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation.”
At the podium, he held up a copy of a 1944 letter from the U.S. War Department to world Jewish leaders turning down their request to bomb the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz.
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