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Zionist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Friday that "Israel"
would oppose any deal between Iran and Western powers that links the stopping of Iran's nuclear program with cooperation in the fight against the so-called "Daesh" ["ISIL"] extremist group.

Lieberman said, "We are not in the place of giving any advice to the President of the US, but we have a disagreement on this issue," during a press conference with the European Union's [EU] new high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, Federica Mogherini, who is visiting "Israel" for the first time since she took office.

"To create such a linkage between the Iranian nuclear program and the fight against "ISIL" - we are against this approach," he said.

He went on to say that, "From our point of view, it's a mistake... Iran is unacceptable for any coalition of the moderate world against "ISIL". They are not a partner for any dialogue in the Middle East."

Lieberman's statements were the first "Israeli" response to Thursday's report in the Wall Street Journal about a secret letter sent by US President Barack Obama to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, His Eminence Sayyid Ali Khamenei, without "Israel's" knowledge of it.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team