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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Matter of Iran, Obama chose diplomacy

President Barack Obama (REUTERS)

Jerusalem (Reuters)-the United States remains committed to preventing Iran has nuclear weapons and continue to open all options for it, said U.s. President Barack Obama in an interview with Israel TV station, Channel 2, Thursday night.

Obama, who is scheduled to arrive in Israel next week, said the United States has information that Iran still takes one year or more to be able to produce nuclear weapons, but wanted to close it AStak.

"Our Interests and the interests of each person is to resolve this issue through diplomacy," he said, as quoted by Xinhua.

"Our goal here is to make sure Iran does not have nuclear weapons that could threaten Israel and provoked the rivalry of weapons in the region," said Obama.
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