US turns heat back on Netanyahu on nuclear deal with Iran

Two high Obama administration officials, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and senior US nuclear negotiator Wendy Sherman, are due in Israel Wednesday to lean hard on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his cabinet members to convince them that Israel is able to live with the forthcoming nuclear accord between Iran and the Six Powers. He will also be asked for a guarantee to abstain from striking Iran’s nuclear facilities.  DEBKAfile: US media have prepared the way for the Hill-Sherman mission by quoting “former Israeli officials” as finding acceptable a deal that leaves Iran with a certain nuclear capacity "for supplying its needs."