While thousands of Democrats were meeting and partying in Denver, Barack Obama spent part of Monday campaigning in Iowa. He told a crowd in Davenport, Iowa that the world must pressure Iran over its nuclear program before Israel feels compelled to deal with the situation itself.

Sen. Obama: “My job as president would be to try to make sure that we are tightening the screws diplomatically on Iran, that we’ve mobilized the world community to go after Iran’s nuclear program in a serious way, to get sanctions in place so that Iran starts making a difficult calculation. And we’ve got to do that before Israel feels like its back is to the wall.”