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Secret talks with Israel: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a secret visit to Moscow in September to urge Russia to rein in Iran, President Dmitri Medvedev confirmed this week. In an interview with CNN, Medvedev also said Israeli officials had assured him in the past that Israel would not launch a unilateral strike against Iranian nuclear facilities—although he did not specify whether Netanyahu was one of those officials. Israel denied making any such promise. Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, said the Russian president must have misinterpreted Israeli officials. “In any event, he is certainly not authorized to speak for us, and there is no change whatsoever in Israel’s policy,” Ayalon said.

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