Is the President -- believe that he offered ironclad enough assurances to Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier in the year regarding the Iran nuclear issue?
The second example I would cite is the Iranian nuclear issue, where Russia and China, both of whom have very complicated policy agendas toward Iran, are collaborating to frustrate the current U.S. strategy for dealing with the Iran nuclear issue.
Mr. Kerry echoed Mr. Obama's willingness to hold direct talks with Iran on the nuclear issue.
Any attempt to establish parity between Israel and Iran on the nuclear issue is dangerous and naive.
Talks between the EU and Iran on the nuclear issue have been off and on for a number of years, with the last round ending in failure in January last year.
There are reports that Iran is the main backer of the Iraqi Shiite militias and there is the nuclear issue, which makes Iran a main foreign policy concern for the U.S. in the region.
She told senators that the administration plans to step up efforts to promote democracy in Iran as it presses the nuclear issue.
Mr Paul opposes intervention in Iran over the issue of nuclear weapons and wants to end US aid to Israel and other allies.
But it would send an important message to people inside Iran and in the West that solving the nuclear issue is now a top priority for the supreme leader and that Iran is keen to solve the deadlock while there is still time.
The stalemate between Iran and the West over the nuclear issue has significantly increased tensions between the two sides in recent months.
Examples could be broadening the scope of prospective talks beyond the nuclear issue and offering Iran real incentives -- lifting sanctions rather than promising not to impose new sanctions.
The allies, he believes, would be unwise to expect the Iranians to exercise a calming influence over Iraqi Shias while they haul Iran over the coals on the nuclear issue.
Jones, Obama and the rest of their gang must have been asleep when the Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians and the rest of the Arabs told them that Iran is unrelated to the Palestinian issue and that Iran must be stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons regardless of the status of Israeli-Palestinian relations.
We also had the opportunity to discuss the issue of Iran and its nuclear program.
As the sixth major powers consider the issue of Iran's nuclear program, the Russians have backed away from any talk of sanctions.
On the issue of Iran's nuclear ambitions, Lord Rosser said "sanctions are now beginning to put considerable pressure on the Iranian regime" and urged against any pre-emptive military action.
And with the prospect of diplomatic "progress" with Iran on Iraq in the air, the US certainly doesn't want to rock the boat by pursuing the issue of Iran's nuclear weapons program.
The issue of Iran's nuclear program continues to dominate relations between the U.S. and Israel and was a primary topic of discussion when President Barack Obama met with Mr. Netanyahu in Israel last month, said U.S. and Israeli officials.
Netanyahu had hoped that his conditional support for Palestinian statehood, and his current willingness to bar Jews from building homes in Judea and Samaria would neutralize US pressure on Israel and facilitate his efforts to convince Obama to recognize and deal rationally with the issue of Iran's nuclear weapons program.
So Israel's best practice regarding Egypt is to buy time on the Palestinian issue while successfully preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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But Israel needs the US to deal with Iran's nuclear programme - and that is an issue which Mr Netanyahu himself has said is more important than any other facing Israel.
First, for three years, from 2003 until 2005, the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency ignored mountains of evidence that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons and refused to refer the issue to the Security Council.
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Both in his prepared remarks and in answering questions, Mr. Podhoretz addressed the issue of Iran and its quest for nuclear weapons and, specifically, recent American diplomatic history that, he believes, will make a confrontation inevitable.
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The thorny issue of Russian nuclear technology transfers to Iran was also thought to have been discussed.
Some Pentagon officials believe, as they have let Congress and the media know, that bombing Iran is not a viable response to the nuclear-proliferation issue, and that more diplomacy is necessary.
And in Iran, Ahmadinejad has already staked his ground regarding the nuclear issue, so he cannot be seen to be backing away without getting some kind of reward in terms of Iran's nuclear position.
After 18 months, we were told Obama finally realized that contrary to what he had thought, Palestinian statehood is not the most urgent issue in the Middle East, Iran's nuclear weapons program is.
And in contrast to how previous international overtures were met in Iran, the most recent offer of a deal over the nuclear issue, presented last month by European diplomats, has prompted widespread public discussion and even positive official noises.
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