Iran, Syria among top issues for G8, NATO
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President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers grappled Friday with options to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in Syria.
Obama will have the ear of key players on both issues during back-to-back G8 and NATO summits that will be dominated with discussions of talks about Syria and Iran, that will be aimed directly and indirectly at Russia, a sometime protector of both Iran and Syria and the chief blockade to such US goals as an arms embargo on Syria. (AP)
