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Romney Talks Tough On Iran

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Romney Talks Tough On Iran

By: Thanassis Cambanis and Scott Helman

The Boston Globe

 

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007

 

"Mitt Romney, making a passionate appeal to pro-Israel voters, declared at a major conference on Israeli security yesterday that the United States must keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb, and he's helping a former Israeli prime minister lobby Massachusetts to divest pension funds from companies that do business with the country.

 

"'Iran must be stopped and can be stopped,' Romney said to a standing ovation at the Herzliya Conference, an annual gathering of leading Israeli and American political figures and security specialists."

 

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"'When you take time in the middle of a busy campaign to go abroad, the place you pick to go is a powerful statement of who you are and what you believe,' said Ari Fleischer, President Bush's former press secretary and a board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition, which sponsored Romney's visit."

 

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"Romney also met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and toured the country's borders with Gaza and Lebanon.

 

"In his speech, Romney positioned himself as a foreign policy hawk and outlined a five-point plan on Iran: tighter sanctions, diplomatic isolation, coordination with Arab allies, threat of a military response if Iran goes nuclear, and a global campaign against 'radical Islam.'

 

"'Jihadism - violent, radical fundamentalism - has emerged as this century's nightmare,' Romney said.

 

"Richard Perle, former head of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and a vocal advocate for military action to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, said voters should expect to hear a lot of hawkish foreign policy speeches from presidential contenders.

 

"'They'll all sound like Romney,' said Perle, now at the American Enterprise Institute. 'They'll all talk tough about Iran.'" ...

 

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