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Livni to Obama: There is a direct link between Iran and terror
By Barak Ravid and Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Barack Obama, Israel 

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni reiterated for United States presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday Israel's position on the negative influence of Iran on the region.

"In the Middle East, there is a direct connection between terror and Iran. This requires the determined and firm steadfastness of the international community against terror and against Iran," Livni told the Democratic senator, who had called the foreign minister ahead of her upcoming visit to Washington.

For his part, Obama referred to last Thursday's shooting attack at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem, where a Palestinian gunman killed eight students, and extended his condolences to the Israeli people. He voiced his belief that despite the attack, Israel must continue in peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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The foreign minister also discussed with Obama the situation in Gaza, and explained that the difficult security circumstances in the coastal strip are directly linked to arms smuggling from Sinai. Livni told the Illinois senator that many Israeli citizens live under the threat of Hamas rocket fire.

Livni said that Israel is pursuing a duel strategy: On the one hand it is attempting to reach understandings with the moderates in the Palestinian Authority; on the other, it is working aggressively against terror.

Obama also stressed in the conversation that Iran will not achieve nuclear weapons.



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