PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama Has A Year To Deliver On Pledge To Prevent Iran From Obtaining Nukes

[Purveyor]

The issue:

President Barack Obama pledged during the 2012 campaign, and since, that he will not let Iran develop nuclear weapons.

According to his own timeline, Obama has about a year left to see if his policy of diplomacy and sanctions can get Iran to slow its enrichment of uranium and assure the world its nuclear program is peaceful. If the United States and its partners cannot succeed, the stage may be set for an American or Israeli military intervention.

Resolving the standoff while avoiding war ranks among the biggest foreign policy challenges of Obama's second term. And time grows short.

The promise:

"When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes all elements of American power: a political effort aimed at isolating Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored, an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency." — Speech to pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, March 4, 2012.

"The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." — Speech to United Nations, Sept. 25, 2012.

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http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/b4191473c431488a89ed8c43805a36ea/US-Obamas-IOUs-Iran

[TwilightGardener]

1. Good luck with that--interesting WaPo reporting on Iran and North Korea possibly

doing surrogate testing for each other, and possible uranium enrichment knowledge-sharing.