In an interview with the Financial Times, Anthony Lake, foreign policy adviser to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), said Obama will likely pressure European allies to implement tougher sanctions on Iran. Lake also discussed Obama’s plan to withdraw troops from Iraq, the U.S.-India nuclear deal, and U.S. policy toward Pakistan.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) released his “crime fighting strategy” on Tuesday. That strategy includes the expansion of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency’s Criminal Alien Program, so that state and local officials will have access to identifying information regarding “criminal aliens.” McCain “believes that state and local governments should not be saddled with the cost of fixing a problem created by the federal government’s failure to secure the border,” a campaign press release said.

Speaking from Colombia Tuesday, McCain said pressed President Alvaro Uribe on human rights in that country. He also praised Uribe’s “significant progress” (WashPost) fighting the FARC.