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Obama says ‘not the time for bluster’ on war with Iran

Condemns tone of Republicans on atomic issue

By Helene Cooper

 |  New York Times  

  March 05, 2012

President Obama gave a forceful defense of his administration’s commitment to Israel’s security on Sunday, using a speech to a pro-Israel lobbying group to take on critics on the Republican presidential campaign trail who have called for a harder American line to rein in Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Obama, speaking before a conference of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, declared that he would not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran and would act - militarily, if necessary - to prevent that from happening.

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