{"id":13127,"date":"2013-03-19T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T09:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/13127-now-is-the-time-to-settle-nuclear-row-obama-tells-iran"},"modified":"2023-01-14T08:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T07:09:37","slug":"now-is-the-time-to-settle-nuclear-row-obama-tells-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/now-is-the-time-to-settle-nuclear-row-obama-tells-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is the time to settle nuclear row: Obama tells Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"barack-obama\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-39595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/03\/barack-obama.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Washington (Reuters) &#8211; US President Barack Obama insisted that &#8220;now is the time&#8221; for Iran to take meaningful steps to resolve its nuclear standoff with the West as he issued a direct appeal to the Iranian people on the eve of his first official trip to Israel.<br \/>Obama used the occasion of Iran&#8217;s new year celebration, as he has in the past, to try to ratchet up pressure on Tehran. 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