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Iran Nuclear Talks Senators Urge Obama to Stand Firm,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
It has long been clear that Iran's domestic political power struggle impedes prospects for any diplomatic breakthrough on the nuclear standoff - just a year ago, a confidence-building fuel swap agreed between Western and Iranian negotiators in Vienna was shot down in Tehran by conservative and reformist rivals to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But U.S. domestic politics too may be coming into play to restrain President Barack Obama from embracing a deal reportedly being discussed with the Iranians by European negotiators.
Unless the West is able to force the Tehran regime into an as-yet-unlikely surrender,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], some form of compromise on the question of enrichment may be the only diplomatic game in town. And Clinton's statement signaled that the Administration may be coming to realize that. But powerful voices in Washington are mustering to stop President Obama from playing that game. And that means that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], even if Tehran is amenable to a deal - and that remains a very big if - trying to make one could leave Obama going into his 2012 re-election campaign facing charges of being "soft on Iran." Given the epic mistrust between the U.S. and Iran,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the skepticism of Obama's domestic political critics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], any long-term deal on the nuclear issue may still be years away. But hawks will be warning that the clock is ticking and pressing for tougher measures.