In many cases, the politicians didn't even know how far developed the nuclear program was.
Those mainly target trade and assets of people thought to be tied to the nuclear program.
's International Atomic Energy Agency issues a report on Friday about the nuclear program in Iran.
And I would suggest we should prioritize first dealing with the nuclear program.
One Israeli Cabinet member, Shaul Mofaz, recently said it "will attack" Iran if the nuclear program was not halted.
What's going to be the subject of that diplomacy if everything we have to say to them is stop the nuclear program?
At the heart of the problem is not simply the nuclear program.
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And on Iran, are you preparing a final diplomatic push here to resolve the nuclear program issue, and are we headed toward one-on-one talks?
And if the nuclear program leads to a tangible affect on people's lives, if it means the price of bread goes up or it's harder to do certain international things like banking, this can affect public opinion.
"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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"But the Iranian nuclear program and the Iranian ballistic missile program must be of concern for the entire International community, " Regev said.
Similarly, the claim that the Obama administration has recently leaked information about the Stuxnet virus attacks on the Iranian nuclear program to the New York Times is overblown, as this information has been reported since 2010, and the Iranians themselves publicly acknowledged that their nuclear program was under cyberattack two years ago.
The so-called EU-3 - Britain, France and Germany - have tried to appease the mullahs into giving up the nuclear weapons program that the Iranian regime is making less and less effort to conceal.
Though it may seem to many Americans as if the Iranian nuclear program has only come about in the past few years, it has actually been known to policymakers for a very long time.
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In November 2006, the IAEA again expressed concern regarding the Iraqi nuclear program whose existence it had denied ahead of the US-British invasion.
The Iranian nuclear program has undertaken -- has undergone a series of problems throughout the year.
What is a fact is that we have eyes onto the Iranian nuclear program and we would be aware of any so-called breakout move by the Iranians towards building a nuclear weapon.
The West says Iran is pursuing a military nuclear program but Iran rejects the claim, saying its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
The United States and others have expressed concern that Tehran is trying to operate a covert nuclear weapons program under the guise of a nuclear energy program.
This is in the Middle East, in Iraq, with respect to the Iranian nuclear program.
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"It's evident that there are things being done that are impacting the Iranian nuclear program, " Mr. Ben-Ami said.
Last week, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said that Washington is open to direct talks despite both nations' longstanding dispute over the Iranian nuclear program.
Among commodities, oil prices eased back following a surge Tuesday that saw New York Mercantile Exchange prices rise 4.7% on renewed tensions over the Iranian nuclear program.
While the U.S. has campaigned to ramp up economic pressure on Tehran to force it into negotiations, Israel has waged a covert campaign to derail the Iranian nuclear program, according to diplomats and security experts.
As former military leaders and foreign policy officials, we call on the Bush administration to engage immediately in direct talks with the government of Iran without preconditions to help resolve the current crisis in the Middle East and settle differences over the Iranian nuclear program.
Mr. Obama said the two "emphasized our shared approach" to Iran, and agreed there is still "time and space" for diplomacy to work in curbing the country's nuclear program, the subject of talks on Monday and Tuesday in Moscow.
In fact, as former assistant secretary of defense Frank Gaffney points out, the North Korean nuclear program reached its frantic climactic stage precisely during the current American moratorium on nuclear testing.
International sanctions over the North's nuclear program have isolated the country.
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But if we want to do that and if we want to go ahead with that, they have to be more flexible on the question of their nuclear program and accept the suspension.
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