Foreign Affairs Magazine

More from Hillary Clinton on Iraq and Iran:

She writes in a new essay in Foreign Affairs magazine that she lays out a tough diplomatic approach on Iran and says that she would start bringing troops home from Iraq "within the first 60 days of [her] administration," but that she could also foresee an American presence in and around the country to help maintain stability and keep pressure on al Qaeda.

In a conference call with reporters that just ended, her campaign's national security director, Lee Feinstein, said that while "a commander and chief does not take options off the table and neither does Senator Clinton," she also "makes it very very clear that the best approach, the preferred approach right now, is to pursue...diplomacy and economic pressure."

Feinstein was asked about whether a bill supported by Clinton asking the Bush administration to declare Iran's 125,000-member Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization paved the way to open conflict with Iran.

"No," said Feinstein. "There is nothing whatsoever which gives any authorization of the kind."

He said that the Guards "are indisputably an odious outfit," and that "some people want to rush to war. Some people think that doing nothing is the answer." But the bill, he said, was part of a robust diplomatic effort to put pressure on Iran.  read more »