Israel and Iran have held their first significant meeting in 30 years but the exchanges between the two adversaries quickly descended into acrimony.
Officials in Tel Aviv admitted on Thursday that representatives from the two states' nuclear agencies spoke to each other during a disarmament conference in Cairo last month.
The surprise encounter, the first that either side has been prepared to admit since the fall of the Shah in 1979, seemed to cause deep embarrassment for both sides.
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