Nashua – Obama joined John Edwards and Mike Gravel yesterday in criticizing Hillary Clinton's support for a resolution urging the State Department to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, a move aimed at bringing additional economic pressure on Iran.

The proposal attracted overwhelming bipartisan support late last month. But a small group of Democrats said they feared that labeling the state-sponsored organization a terrorist group could be interpreted as a congressional authorization of military force in Iran.

"There's nothing wrong with identifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, but it is a problem when you start using Iran as a justification for troop structures in Iraq and providing language that could potentially lead to military action in Iran," Obama told The Associated Press yesterday following a campaign event in Nashua. Obama missed the vote on the resolution because he was campaigning in New Hampshire.