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WASHINGTON — Israel and the United States, amid the threat of an attack on Iran, have undergone a sharp decline in their intelligence cooperation.
Officials said the intelligence communities of Israel and the United States have encountered increasing disagreement regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities. They said U.S. intelligence officials have become much more careful in accepting Israeli assessments as well as reports of Iranian nuclear developments.
“These days everything is questioned, and the Israelis are being challenged on a large portion of its data,” an official said.
The intelligence decline was said to have begun in late 2011 and intensified in 2012 amid concern that Israel was preparing an attack on Iran.
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