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The visiting officials were understood to be pleased with the U.S. candor and transparency following meetings with officials such as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, U.S. Iran envoy Rob Malley, and senior National Security Council and State Department officials such as Brett McGurk and Barbara Leaf at the Israeli embassy.
"This administration has been very clever, they and the Israelis are both working to try to not make this a grotesque public dispute even though everybody knows they are on different sides of the issue," says Barbara Slavin, Director of the Atlantic Council's Future of Iran Initiative.