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Last update - 21:40 19/10/2009
Top Republican: Obama 'charm offensive' won't halt Iran nukes
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel News, Iran 

The former Massachusetts governor and presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, on Monday blasted U.S. President Barack Obama's outreaches to Iran as failing to thwart the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.

"Stop thinking that a charm offensive will talk the Iranians out of their pursuit of nuclear weapons. It will not," Romney told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a major American Jewish lobby.

"Agreements, unenforceable and unverifiable, will have no greater impact here than they did in North Korea. Once an outstretched hand is met with a clenched fist, it becomes a symbol of weakness and impotence."
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The possible 2012 presidential contender's comments came after a new round of talks between Iran and world powers began in Vienna on Monday aimed at easing concerns about Tehran's nuclear intentions.

At the summit, Romney stressed that the negotiations would achieve nothing.

"The Iranian regime is unalloyed evil, run by people who are at once ruthless and fanatical," he said. "The Iranian leadership is the greatest immediate threat to the world since the fall of the Soviet Union, and before that, Nazi Germany."

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      1.   Poor Mitt... 21:36  |  Stephen 19/10/09
      2.   Romney Was An Airhead Then and Is Now 21:39  |  Yaakov Sullivan 19/10/09
      3.   Romney has my vote 21:49  |  Benzaquen 19/10/09
      4.   Romney is 100% correct. Nobama is a joke in Iran. 21:51  |  4:20 19/10/09
      5.   Indeed it`s a mistake based on ignorance. 21:53  |  Fortuna Benmayor 19/10/09
      6.   Romney - Where the hell have you been for the last 9 months? 22:00  |  Pssd off American. 19/10/09
      7.   Iran is not a treat to USA! 22:05  |  Jack 19/10/09
      8.   Mitt Romney! 22:19  |  Yuriy 19/10/09
      9.   Romney comment is off mark 22:27  |  Christopher 19/10/09
      10.   The American Likud strikes 23:08  |  Mark Lincoln 19/10/09
      11.   Mitt Romney 00:00  |  Robert 20/10/09
      12.   Fanatical like a LDS prophet? 00:46  |  John 20/10/09
      13.   Dog Whisperer 01:46  |  Aaron 20/10/09
      14.   i wonder if he can explain HOW iran`s a threat to the world 04:59  |  eric 20/10/09
      15.   Never Held a Federal Office 05:28  |  Mark of Lewiston 20/10/09
      16.   Mitt Romney is a NEO CON LOON! 06:00  |  jim the mechanic 20/10/09
      17.   Gov. Mitt Romney started the state run public option healthcare 07:52  |  Romney = better 4 MA 20/10/09
      18.   #2 John 14:39  |  Malone 20/10/09
      19.   fools...of course iran is a global threat 19:41  |  jon 20/10/09
      20.   to jon montreal 06:05  |  ben 21/10/09
      21.   ben from ottawa 15:53  |  jon 28/10/09
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