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Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Why Israel faces new dangers in shadow war against Iran if nuclear deal is agreed

Iranians celebrate
Iranians celebrate on a street in Tehran in April 2015, after Iran's nuclear agreement with world powers in Lausanne, Switzerland. Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

The US decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal was an immense personal achievement for former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a leaked video, he boasted that he had personally convinced Donald Trump to scrap the 2015 accord between Tehran and world powers.

“I had to stand up against the whole world and come out against this agreement,” Netanyahu told members of his Likud party in the clip from 2018. “And we didn’t give up.”

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