US Keeping Some Details of Iran Nuclear Talks From Israel

<p>The United States said Wednesday it has been withholding some details of nuclear talks with Iran from Israel to prevent those details from possibly being made public and distorted.</p> <p>White House spokesman John Earnest told reporters there is "no question" that some of the things Israel has said about the U.S. negotiating position have not been accurate.</p> <p>"The United States is not going to be in a position of negotiating this agreement in public, particularly when we see that there is a continued practice of cherry-picking specific pieces of information and using them out of context to distort the negotiating position of the United States," Earnest told reporters Wednesday.</p> <p>At the State Department, spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed the U.S. does not share everything with Israel and is therefore withholding some details of the negotiations with Iran.</p> <p>But both officials stressed that top Obama administration officials will continue frequent and routine contact with Israel and that Israel’s security is a priority for the United States.</p> <p>The U.S. and its so-called P5+1 allies - Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany - are facing a June deadline to work out a deal with Iran to cut its uranium enrichment program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions that have devastated the Iranian economy.</p> <p>Iran has insisted its nuclear program is for civilian purposes, and not part of a pursuit to build an atomic bomb.</p>



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