--- title: Obama Expresses 'Serious Concerns' About Iran in Saudi description: Even after the nuclear deal, the U.S. and its allies continue to worry. canonical: https://time.com/4303237/obama-iran-concern-saudi-arabia/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-21T14:43:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:56:01.812Z article:section: World og:title: Obama Expresses 'Serious Concerns' About Iran in Saudi Meeting og:description: Even after the nuclear deal, the U.S. and its allies continue to worry og:url: https://time.com/4303237/obama-iran-concern-saudi-arabia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3594b5dc67eb862/6988902acf40a84d49c42ed4/obama-iran-nuclear.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Obama Speaks at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama Expresses 'Serious Concerns' About Iran in Saudi Meeting twitter:description: Even after the nuclear deal, the U.S. and its allies continue to worry twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3594b5dc67eb862/6988902acf40a84d49c42ed4/obama-iran-nuclear.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Obama Expresses 'Serious Concerns' About Iran in Saudi Meeting by [Alexander Smith / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexander Smith / NBC News Apr 21, 2016 2:43 PM CUT  U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the newly-designated Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the newly-designated Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.Michael Reynolds— Pool/Getty Images by [Alexander Smith / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexander Smith / NBC News Apr 21, 2016 2:43 PM CUT The U.S. continues to have “serious concerns” about Iran’s behavior even after the watershed nuclear deal last year, President Barack Obama said on Thursday during meeting hosted by Tehran’s arch-rival Saudi Arabia. While the agreement signed on July 14 had helped “cut off every single one of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon,” illegal Iranian arms shipments, ballistic missile tests, and “destabilizing acts” were a continued worry for the U.S. and its allies, the president said. Obama was speaking in Saudi Arabia where he was conducting talks with the Gulf states on how to coordinate better on conflicts across the region… [_Read the rest of this story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/saudi-arabia-obama-says-u-s-still-has-serious-concerns-n559771?cid=par-time%5F20160421 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4303237/obama-iran-concern-saudi-arabia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4303237/obama-iran-concern-saudi-arabia/"},"headline":"Obama Expresses 'Serious Concerns' About Iran in Saudi Meeting","datePublished":"2016-04-21T14:43:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:56:01.812Z","description":"Even after the nuclear deal, the U.S. and its allies continue to worry","url":"https://time.com/4303237/obama-iran-concern-saudi-arabia/","keywords":["Iran","Nuclear","Saudi Arabia","diplomacy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3594b5dc67eb862/6988902acf40a84d49c42ed4/obama-iran-nuclear.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexander Smith / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3594b5dc67eb862/6988902acf40a84d49c42ed4/obama-iran-nuclear.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Obama Speaks at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument","caption":"U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the newly-designated Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.","creditText":"Michael Reynolds— Pool/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/iran/","name":"Iran"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4303237/obama-iran-concern-saudi-arabia/","name":"Obama Expresses 'Serious Concerns' About Iran in Saudi Meeting"}}]}] ```