Iran under fire
24 Oct 2012 11:12 PM GMT
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned Iran that the ‘clock is ticking away’ as his Republican challenger Mitt Romney vowed a harder line to prevent Tehran from going nuclear during the last of the three high-stake presidential debates just two weeks before polls.
With one last chance for both candidates to appeal to millions of voters, Obama was the aggressor from the start of the debate which was mainly devoted to foreign policy issues.
‘We’re not going to allow Iran to perpetually engage in negotiations that lead nowhere. And I’ve been very clear to them because of the intelligence coordination that we do with a range of countries, including Israel, we have a sense of when they would get breakout capacity, which means that we would not be able to intervene in time to stop their nuclear program, and that clock is ticking,’ Obama said.
‘We are going to make sure that if they do not meet the demands of the international community, then we are going to take all options necessary to make sure they don’t have a nuclear weapon,’ 51-year-old Obama warned in a live debate.
With one last chance for both candidates to appeal to millions of voters, Obama was the aggressor from the start of the debate which was mainly devoted to foreign policy issues.
‘We’re not going to allow Iran to perpetually engage in negotiations that lead nowhere. And I’ve been very clear to them because of the intelligence coordination that we do with a range of countries, including Israel, we have a sense of when they would get breakout capacity, which means that we would not be able to intervene in time to stop their nuclear program, and that clock is ticking,’ Obama said.
‘We are going to make sure that if they do not meet the demands of the international community, then we are going to take all options necessary to make sure they don’t have a nuclear weapon,’ 51-year-old Obama warned in a live debate.
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