Obama to offer Netanyahu pressures on Iran for ceding to Palestinians

US President Barack Obama, during his expected upcoming visit to the area, will suggest to Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu to intensify pressures on Iran in exchange with a ceding to Palestinians, Sunday said Israeli daily newspaper, Maarif. The Israeli paper that reported from the British daily, The Sunday Times, said Obama will arrive with “a carrot and a stick” policy in an attempt to persuade Israelis to negotiate with Palestinians regarding borders and security issues. According to Maarif, The Sunday Times quoted Aaron David Miller, a U.S. State Department adviser on Middle East affairs, saying “Barack Obama does not want to be the American president on whose watch Iran acquires a nuclear weapon or be accused of presiding over the demise of what’s left of the two-state solution.” It added that senior staff members of the White House have arrived to Israel to help form an Arabic-Turkish front to control the situation in the region.