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| In U.N. Speech, Obama Will Warn Time Runs Short on Iran | |
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| UNITED NATIONS — President Obama will tell the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that time for diplomacy to curb the looming Iranian nuclear crisis is running out, according to excerpts from Mr. Obama’s planned speech provided by the White House. | |
| While the president will say that he still wants to resolve the issue through diplomacy, and believes there is “still time and space to do so,” Mr. Obama also planned to warn that “time is not unlimited,” the White House said. | While the president will say that he still wants to resolve the issue through diplomacy, and believes there is “still time and space to do so,” Mr. Obama also planned to warn that “time is not unlimited,” the White House said. |
| “Make no mistake: a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained,” Mr. Obama plans to say during his address, the last of his current term. “It would threaten the elimination of Israel, the security of gulf nations, and the stability of the global economy. And that is why the United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” | |
| Mr. Obama’s speech to world leaders at the United Nations is expected to start at 10 a.m. . | |
| The excerpts do not veer from the red lines on Iran that Mr. Obama expressed earlier this year — when he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee convention that containment was not an option for him on Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had been pressuring the White House to move the red line to preventing Iran from even acquiring nuclear capability, a request that the White House, so far, has rejected. | The excerpts do not veer from the red lines on Iran that Mr. Obama expressed earlier this year — when he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee convention that containment was not an option for him on Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had been pressuring the White House to move the red line to preventing Iran from even acquiring nuclear capability, a request that the White House, so far, has rejected. |
| Mr. Obama also planned to address the recent anti-American protests in the Arab world, casting them as assault on not just the United States, but one on what he characterized as the ideals on which the United Nations was founded. | Mr. Obama also planned to address the recent anti-American protests in the Arab world, casting them as assault on not just the United States, but one on what he characterized as the ideals on which the United Nations was founded. |
| “If we are serious about those ideals, we must speak honestly about the deeper causes of this crisis,” Mr. Obama will say, according to the White House. “Because we face a choice between the forces that would drive us apart, and the hopes we hold in common.” | “If we are serious about those ideals, we must speak honestly about the deeper causes of this crisis,” Mr. Obama will say, according to the White House. “Because we face a choice between the forces that would drive us apart, and the hopes we hold in common.” |
| His speech also includes a dismissal of any justification for the attacks on American Embassies around the world. Recent assaults were prompted by an American-made video that ridiculed the prophet Mohammad. | His speech also includes a dismissal of any justification for the attacks on American Embassies around the world. Recent assaults were prompted by an American-made video that ridiculed the prophet Mohammad. |
| “There are no words that excuse the killing of innocents,” Mr. Obama planned to say. “There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy. There is no slander that provides an excuse for people to burn a restaurant in Lebanon, or destroy a school in Tunis, or cause death and destruction in Pakistan.” | “There are no words that excuse the killing of innocents,” Mr. Obama planned to say. “There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy. There is no slander that provides an excuse for people to burn a restaurant in Lebanon, or destroy a school in Tunis, or cause death and destruction in Pakistan.” |
| After his speech to the General Assembly, Mr. Obama will deliver remarks at the Clinton Global Initiative, also in New York, before flying back to Washington to pick up the campaign trail again. His Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, is also expected to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative. | After his speech to the General Assembly, Mr. Obama will deliver remarks at the Clinton Global Initiative, also in New York, before flying back to Washington to pick up the campaign trail again. His Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, is also expected to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative. |
| The General Assembly speech gives Mr. Obama the edge of appearing on the world stage, with all the trappings of a global leaders surrounding him, at a crucial time in the presidential re-election campaign. | The General Assembly speech gives Mr. Obama the edge of appearing on the world stage, with all the trappings of a global leaders surrounding him, at a crucial time in the presidential re-election campaign. |