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The president tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep that the U.S. and other countries have a solid plan to keep Iran’s nuclear program under control.

An explosion in Beirut on Friday killed at least six people, including a former Lebanese ambassador to the U.S. who was a leader of the Western-backed coalition that opposes the militant group Hezbollah.

Secretary of State John Kerry called the current situation in Syria “unacceptable by anyone’s standard” and lashed out at the government of President Bashar al-Assad for using Hezbollah in the fight against rebels.

The region’s turbulent geopolitics have turned it into a proxy fight that has drawn in the rest of the region as well as the U.S and other global powers.