Obama challenger Romney says ‘prepare for war’ against Iran

Republican challenger pledges to back up US diplomacy with a very real and credible military option.

Accusing President Barack Obama of naivete on Iran,Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney promised today that if elected president he would “prepare for war” with the Islamic republic.

In a commentary published in the Wall Street Journal,Romney said he would back up US diplomacy “with a very real and very credible military option,” deploying carrier battle groups to the Gulf and boosting military aid to Israel.

“These actions will send an unequivocal signal to Iran that the United States,acting in concert with allies,will never permit Iran to obtain nuclear weapons,” he wrote.

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Romney,a frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination,keyed his column to an International Atomic Energy Agency report this week citing “credible evidence” that Iran had worked on a nuclear explosive device.

Iran denies it is developing nuclear weapons and insists its nuclear program is for generating electricity,but the report has prompted calls in the West for tougher UN sanctions and demands by Israel for world to act to prevent Tehran for getting nuclear weapons.

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