Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is expected to re-examine Israeli policy toward Iran and raise the issue in upcoming talks with the Clinton administration, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported Wednesday. The paper said that as army chief of staff, Barak had opposed viewing Iran as Israel’s leading enemy and considered Iraq a far more serious threat to national security. At the same time, the paper quoted a senior political source in Jerusalem as stressing there would be no change in Israeli policy toward Iran as long as 13 Iranian Jews remain jailed on charges of spying for Israel.
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