Campaign Statements — Iran
Thursday December 15, 2011
“So already the president - and I think he is wisely backing off on the sanctions, because it’s going to be an economic calamity if you take all the oil out of Europe. So I think that makes sense. He knows these sanctions are overreaching. Sanctions are an act of war when you prevent goods and services from going into a country. We need to approach this a little differently. We have 12,000 diplomats in our services. We ought to use a little bit of diplomacy once in a while.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Ron Paul |
Thursday December 15, 2011
“There’s no U.N. evidence of [Iran being close to having a nuclear bomb]. Clapper at the—in our national security department, he says there is no evidence. It’s no different than it was in 2003. You know what I really fear about what’s happening here? It’s another Iraq coming. There’s war propaganda going on.
And we’re arguing—to me, the greatest danger is that we will have a president that will overreact and we will soon bomb Iran. And the sentiment is very mixed. It’s—it’s very mixed even in Israel. You know, there—the—a head of the security for Israel, who just recently retired, said that it wouldn’t make sense to do this, to take—to take them out, because they might be having a weapon. So I would say that the greatest danger is overreacting. There is no evidence that they have it. And it would make more sense—if we lived through the Cold War, which we did, with 30,000 missiles pointed at us, we ought to really sit back and think and not jump the gun and believe that we are going to be attacked. That’s how we got into that useless war in Iraq and lost so much in Iraq.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Iraq | Ron Paul | War on Terror |
Thursday December 15, 2011
“If we are going to be able to defend America, from Iran, from Hezbollah, from Hamas, that are using Mexico as a border, as a way to penetrate in the southern part of the United States. Venezuela has the largest Iranian embassy in the world there. We know what is going on. It is time for this country to have a real conversation about a Monroe Doctrine again like we did against the Cubans in the 60s.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Rick Perry | War on Terror |
Thursday December 15, 2011
“Well, I have already called for a overfly zone—no fly zone over Syria already. They are Iran’s partner. They are attached at the hip. And we have to stand firm with our ally in that region, Israel. There needs to be no space between the United States and Israel. And this administration has absolutely bungled.
It is the most muddled foreign policy that I can ever remember in my lifetime whether it was in ‘09 when we had the opportunity either covertly, overtly or other ways of helping the Iranian citizens as they were trying to overthrow that repressive regime, whether it was working with Mubarak, and trying to have a moderate to come in and replace him, whether it was leading from behind, as we have seen in Libya, and now we have seen this president, as Mitt and Newt have both talked about, asking the Iranians to give us back that drone.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Iran | Rick Perry | War on Terror |
Wednesday December 07, 2011
“I would focus…on [Iran’s] gasoline supply. I would fund every dissident group in the country.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday December 07, 2011
“I would not meet with Ahmadinejad. He should be excluded from diplomatic society. He should be indicted for the crime of incitement to genocide under Article III of the Genocide Convention. Iran’s ayatollahs will not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons on my watch. A nuclear-armed Iran is not only a threat to Israel, it is a threat to the entire world. Our friends must never fear that we will not stand by them in an hour of need. Our enemies should never doubt our resolve.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Israel/Palestine | Mitt Romney |
Wednesday December 07, 2011
“No, over the past three years, President Obama has instead chastened Israel. In his inaugural address to the United Nations, the President chastised Israel, but said little about the thousands of Hamas rockets raining into its skies. He’s publicly proposed that Israel adopt indefensible borders. He’s insulted its Prime Minister. And he’s been timid and weak in the face of the existential threat of a nuclear Iran.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Israel/Palestine | Mitt Romney |
Wednesday November 23, 2011
“[Ahmadinejad] has said that if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. He will use it against the United States of America.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Michele Bachmann | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“I think we do our national interests a disservice by jumping in too soon and taking up sides with people we don’t fully understand, Islamist groups, pan-Arab groups. Our interest in the Middle East is Israel. And our interest is to ensure that Israel—that Iran does not go nuclear.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Israel/Palestine | Jon Huntsman | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“We need a strategy of defeating and replacing the current Iranian regime with minimum use of force. We need a strategy, as Rick Santorum was saying, of being honest about radical Islam and designing a strategy to defeat it wherever it happens to exist.We need a strategy in central Asia that recognizes that, frankly, if you’re Pashtun, you don’t care whether you’re in Pakistan or Afghanistan, because you have the same tribal relationships. So we need to be much more strategic and less tactical in our discussion.
But if we were serious, we could break the Iranian regime, I think, within a year, starting candidly with cutting off the gasoline supply to Iran, and then, frankly, sabotaging the only refinery they have.“
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Newt Gingrich |
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