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By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel pledged allegiance on Wednesday to its special relationship with the United States, now tested by pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, after Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman appeared to question the strength of the tie. Any notion that Lieberman's comments, in a speech on Wednesday, meant that Israel was looking for new friends at the expense of its bonds with its longtime main ally and military aid provider was challenged by the minister's own deputy. While his blunt-speaking boss was left behind in Israel, Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin was in Moscow with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who lobbied Russian President Vladimir Putin against a prospective deal between world powers and Iran now being weighed at talks in Geneva.
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