(Times of Israel) Lenny Ben-David - In President Obama's speech to AIPAC, he referred ten times to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But did this indicate a policy decision to limit American reaction only to the final act of "obtaining a nuclear weapon"? He never voiced opposition to a "nuclear Iran," or to "Iran's nuclear capability," or to "Iran's uranium enrichment program." The head of the pro-Iranian lobby in Washington, Trita Parsi, said after the speech: "The president stood firm behind weaponization rather than weapons capability as the red line." "The president said: 'I have said that when it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table, and I mean what I say.'...Critically, Obama's rejection of containment at AIPAC was in the context of containing a nuclear-armed Iran, not a nuclear-capable Iran."
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