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Romney Stumbles in Explaining Iran Policy
By DAVID E. SANGER and ASHLEY PARKER, NYT
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney has a clear “red line” in mind, a point beyond which Iran cannot go toward producing a nuclear weapon. It is sharply different, his campaign insists, from President Obama’s.
But he is having a hard time explaining the difference.
On Thursday, Mr. Romney’s advisers were very clear: Mr. Obama had made a big mistake declaring only that he would stop Iran from “acquiring a nuclear weapon,” a formulation the president has used many times. Mr. Romney, his adviser Eliot Cohen said in an interview, “would not be content with an Iran one screwdriver’s turn away from a nuclear weapon.”
Mr. Romney is determined to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear “capability” — the combination of nuclear fuel, the technology to fashion it into a weapon and a delivery device — that would enable it to build a weapon in a matter of weeks or months, Mr. Cohen said.
It is a critical distinction and one that Mr. Romney made on July 29 during a visit to Israel. Showing that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were on the same page, Mr. Romney noted that for years he has said that “Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability presents an intolerable threat to Israel.”
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WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney has a clear “red line” in mind, a point beyond which Iran cannot go toward producing a nuclear weapon. It is sharply different, his campaign insists, from President Obama’s.
But he is having a hard time explaining the difference.
On Thursday, Mr. Romney’s advisers were very clear: Mr. Obama had made a big mistake declaring only that he would stop Iran from “acquiring a nuclear weapon,” a formulation the president has used many times. Mr. Romney, his adviser Eliot Cohen said in an interview, “would not be content with an Iran one screwdriver’s turn away from a nuclear weapon.”
Mr. Romney is determined to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear “capability” — the combination of nuclear fuel, the technology to fashion it into a weapon and a delivery device — that would enable it to build a weapon in a matter of weeks or months, Mr. Cohen said.
It is a critical distinction and one that Mr. Romney made on July 29 during a visit to Israel. Showing that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were on the same page, Mr. Romney noted that for years he has said that “Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability presents an intolerable threat to Israel.”
(More here.)
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