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Obama: Iran Shouldn't Misinterpret U.S. Response to Syria

(Washington Post) Zachary A. Goldfarb - President Obama declared Sunday that the U.S. is still prepared to act militarily to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons despite the decision to pursue a diplomatic deal and not strike Syria over its use of chemical weapons. In an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC, Obama said: "I think what the Iranians understand is that the nuclear issue is a far larger issue for us than the chemical weapons issue, that the threat against Israel that a nuclear Iran poses is much closer to our core interests, that a nuclear arms race in the region is something that would be profoundly destabilizing. And so my suspicion is that the Iranians recognize they shouldn't draw a lesson that we haven't struck [Syria] to think we won't strike Iran."
2013-09-16 00:00:00
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