article_snippet.sent: Nowhere will Hillary Clinton's challenges be greater than on Iran.
article_snippet.sent: Clinton presided over the secret channel that laid the basis for the November 2013 interim accord and led directly to the putative understandings reached between the United States and Iran earlier this month in Lausanne, Switzerland.
article_snippet.sent: And Hillary Clinton's certainly can take credit for pushing tough sanctions that forced Iran to the table.
article_snippet.sent: The problem, of course, is that Hillary Clinton's Republican opponents and more than a few Democrats hate what the negotiations have produced.
article_snippet.sent: The good news is that there won't be an agreement for months.
article_snippet.sent: So for now, Hillary Clinton's can back the importance of tough negotiating and even tougher sanctions or worse, should the Iranians cheat.  
article_snippet.sent: But sooner or later, perhaps as early as June if there's an agreement, Clinton will have to take a stand on what may well be a very problematic and unpopular accord and what Congress' role should be.
article_snippet.sent: Frankly given Clinton political interests, it would be easier for Clinton candidacy if the agreement fell apart and Clinton could campaign on a tough anti-Iranian message, hammering the mullahs' repressive policies at home and the mullahs' mischief-making in the region.
article_snippet.sent: And that will help somewhat in trying to walk a narrow line between a negotiating process with Iran that Clinton launched and Iran fruits, which are seen by many Israelis and American Jews right now as too generous to the mullahs.