AFP
via Yahoo! News
12/6/2013
Washington (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his nuclear diplomacy with Iran before an audience of Israeli diplomats and senior members of the US Jewish community and officials.
At a White House Hanukkah reception, Obama said that it was important for the United States to test Iran’s intentions, and pledged to keep working for a comprehensive deal to deprive Tehran of a nuclear weapon.
“For the first time in a decade we have halted progress of Iran’s nuclear program,” Obama said.
“Key parts of the program will be rolled back even though the toughest of our sanctions remain in place.
“That is good for the world, that is good for Israel,” Obama said, vowing to keep striving for a final deal with Iran over the coming months that takes care of the “threat of Iran’s nuclear weapons once and for all.”…
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US President Barack Obama watches as Martin Weiss, a Holocaust survivor, lights a Menorah during a Hanukkah reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House December 5, 2013. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
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