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Daybreak: ‘Something We *Have* to Solve’

Plus sanctions cause India to stop buying Iranian oil, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
March 02, 2012
President Obama yesterday.(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
President Obama yesterday.(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

• CONTRIBUTING EDITOR JEFF GOLDBERG SITS DOWN WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA, who proceeds to talk as frankly and intricately about Iran and Israel as I’ve ever seen a president talk about anything. Read. The. Whole. Thing. [Atlantic Goldblog]

• OBAMA REMINDS US THAT THE SANCTIONS ARE OVERPOWERING, and what do you know? Sanctions-caused insurance issues have led India, a crucial customer, to cancel its petroleum shipments from Iran. [Reuters]

• A PREVIEW OF THE OBAMA-NETANYAHU MEETING from Ethan Bronner. [NYT]

• ISRAEL ANNOUNCED IT WILL SOON TEST its new antiballistic missile system. [NYT]

• “A NEW LEAF” IS BEING TURNED in the relationship between Hamas and Jordan. [Times of Israel]

• IN JODI RUDOREN’S FIRST REGIONAL REPORTING, she interviews Israeli President Shimon Peres. [NYT]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.