Politics. On Point.

President Obama spoke at American University on Wednesday to make the case for the administration's nuclear war deal recently reached with Iran. Making the case for the U.S. - Iran nuclear weapons deal: President Obama speaking in the  Prince Salman Grand Auditorium on the campus of American University. Photo/CD Brown.  The president said the current deal, one with far-reaching components, was the best offer that could have been made, short of the alternative which he said - could be war. To the point, and more diplomatically, the agreement stipulates that Iran cannot make a nuclear weapon - ever. The president explained several other components of the deal, which 90 countries support. Under the deal, said the president, "The core of its [Iran's] heavy-water reactor at Arak will be pulled out, filled with concrete, and replaced with one that will not produce plutonium for a weapon.  The spent fuel from that reactor will be shipped out of the countr...