Obama's UN envoy says despite tensions, US, Israel united in preventing a nuclear-armed Iran

The Obama administration pushed ahead Monday with an effort to end its standoff with Israel, arguing that the focus on tensions between the allies obscured a larger truth that the United States would never jeopardize the Jewish state's security by allowing Iran to become a nuclear power. Addressing this year's annual policy conference of the American-Israel Political Action Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobby, President Barack Obama's U.N. ambassador, Samantha Power, highlighted the billions of dollars in military assistance Washington provides and the constant defence the U.S. provides Israel at the United Nations.

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