"Make" no mistake about it," said a se-nior Israeli official preparing for the arrival on March 20th of Barack Obama on a three-day visit. "Iran will be front and centre of the discussions between the president and Mr Netanyahu." The dangers to the region from the bloody Syrian civil war and the need to revive the comatose peace process with the Palestinians were also high on the agenda during five hours of talks between Mr Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. But, in different ways, Iran loomed over both those issues too.
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