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...

U.S. Adds Pressure To A Defiant Iranian Government President Obama signed yesterday what he called "the toughest sanctions against Iran ever passed by the United States Congress." President Obama signing Iraning Sanctions Act as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner,  and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice look on.  Photo/CD Brown. The administration has aggressively pursued a comprehensive agenda of non-proliferation and nuclear security having joined with Russia to reduce nuclear arsenals through the New START Treaty and strengthening the global non-proliferation regime with the  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . To that end, it has been Iran who has been the least likely to comply. Speaking yesterday in front of Congressional members in the East Room of the White House, President Obama stressed that the U.S. has tried work with Iran, to no avail. For years, the Iranian government has violated its commitme...