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.
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.
The stalemate between Iran and the West over the nuclear issue has significantly increased tensions between the two sides in recent months.
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.
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.
We also had the opportunity to discuss the issue of Iran and its nuclear program.
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.
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.
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.
As the sixth major powers consider the issue of Iran's nuclear program, the Russians have backed away from any talk of sanctions.
She told senators that the administration plans to step up efforts to promote democracy in Iran as it presses the nuclear issue.
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.
Mr Paul opposes intervention in Iran over the issue of nuclear weapons and wants to end US aid to Israel and other allies.
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.
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.
For Mr Netanyahu though, who's campaigned under the slogan "A strong prime minister, a strong Israel", security is the most importance issue, with the perceived threat from Iran's nuclear programme at its heart.
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.
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.
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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The only reasonable explanation of the Olmert government's behavior in regards to the Palestinians is that the government hopes that by appeasing the US and the rest of the gang on the Palestinian issue, Israel will receive their cooperation in preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
"The developments in the Arab world and the crisis in the West's relations with Iran over the nuclear program has resulted in Afghanistan being relegated into a secondary issue for the U.S. and the West, " read one editorial in 8-Subh, the country's largest private newspaper, last month.
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Bush decided to work through the UN Security Council on the issue. despite Russia's open assistance to Iran's nuclear and missile programs and China's growing addiction to Iranian natural gas, it was already apparent that the US was not serious about preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The greatest new threat on the horizon, the single most dominant issue for many of us, is the prospect that Iran would acquire nuclear weapons.
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Understand that the concept of the Nuclear Security Summit that we set up was not directed at the specific issue of Iran or North Korea, but was directed at one leg of a multi-legged stool when it comes to our nuclear security.
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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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