I write to you as a friend — one who has stood beside you through the most consequential decisions of our era, and who values that friendship above the calculations of any single moment.

First, let me say what I have said publicly and what I mean with complete sincerity: the support you provided Israel at the outset of our engagement against Iran was historic. Your willingness to stand with us when others flinched — to provide materiel, intelligence, and above all the moral clarity of American backing — reflected the best of the alliance our two nations have built across decades. For that, I am and will remain grateful.

It is precisely because of that friendship that I must speak plainly now.

We began this engagement together with mutually understood objectives. Iran’s nuclear program was to be dismantled — not managed, not frozen, not subjected to another 60-day negotiating clock........

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