White House says US policy has weakened Iran
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President Barack Obama's national security adviser says Iran has been weakened under the Obama administration, rebutting Republican critics who say the White House policy has been ineffective. Tom Donilon spoke just hours before a scheduled foreign policy debate by Republican presidential candidates.
He told experts at the Brookings Institution on Tuesday that Iran's influence is shrinking across the Middle East, including in neighboring Iraq, due to international sanctions, the revolts of the Arab Spring and what he called Tehran's "intransigence." (AP)
