Clinton repeated her regret at the disclosure of the cables and said that many of the comments in them had been taken out of context. Iran’s current enrichment activities are condemned by the United States and others because of suspicions that Iran is manufacturing fuel for a bomb. Clinton said that if Iran won back the confidence of the world, it would eventually be allowed to enrich uranium to fuel civilian nuclear power plants - the first time that a senior Obama administration official has explicitly said that.

Clinton said at the conference, sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.Įven the parts of her speech on other topics - the stability of Lebanon, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, and the need for an independent Iraq - seemed targeted at Iran, which wields growing influence in all these areas.Įarlier, in an interview with BBC, Mrs.

“We continue to make this offer of engagement with respect for your sovereignty and with regard for your interests - but also with an ironclad commitment to defending global security,” Mrs. Paying tribute to Iran as one of the world’s great civilizations, she said President Obama remained open to diplomacy, but she challenged the Iranians to restore confidence by opening up about their nuclear activities and adhering to nuclear nonproliferation obligations. Clinton directly addressed Iran’s representatives, who sat in the audience, to come to the negotiations in good faith. In a wide-ranging speech to a security conference here, Mrs.

Instead, he dismissed the controversy as trivial, drawing an ovation from the crowd and shoving the spotlight away from Clinton’s most profound political weakness.The show of solidarity came three days before Iran is to meet the United States and other countries in Geneva, for the first time in more than a year, to discuss its nuclear program. Sanders, Clinton’s top rival among declared candidates, was handed the opportunity by debate moderators to assail her over the email issue. “This is the kind of debate that helps build momentum.” “If you’re a Hillary supporter and you were worried for whatever reason, you should feel very good about yourself,” said Rodell Mollineau, a Democratic strategist who attended the televised debate in Las Vegas. senator from Vermont and self-described democratic socialist. In doing so, she may have dampened calls for Biden to make a belated entrance into the race while also blunting the threat from insurgent candidate Bernie Sanders, a 74-year-old U.S. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonĪnalysts widely hailed Clinton, 67, as turning in a nimble, effective performance on Tuesday night, perhaps easing the fears of some Democrats fretting that the flap over her use of a private email server while in the Obama administration was torpedoing her candidacy for the November 2016 election. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gives a thumbs up to supporters at the end of the first official Democratic candidates debate of the 2016 presidential campaign in Las Vegas, Nevada October 13, 2015.

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