Romney vows to toughen Iran sanctions

a powerful pro-Israel lobby he would “bring the current policy of procrastination toward Iran to an end,” if he became president.
“Hope is not a foreign policy,” Romney told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee via video link from Columbus, Ohio, adding the only thing “respected by thugs and tyrants . . . is our power and our readiness to use it.”
He added: “I will not delay imposing further crippling sanctions. I will not hesitate to fully implement the ones we already have. I’ll make sure that Iran knows of the very real peril that awaits it if it becomes nuclear.”
“I will engage Iran’s neighbours, I will station multiple aircraft carriers and warships at Iran’s door,” he said.
“As president, I will be ready to engage in diplomacy, but I will be just as ready to engage our military might,” Romney told thousands of AIPAC delegates, who gave him strong applause.
The continued existence of Israel as a Jewish state is a “vital national interest of the United States,” he said.
“We must not allow Iran to have the bomb or the capacity to make a bomb,” he said, echoing a line from AIPAC which said such a breakout capacity must be prevented.
Obama has spoken only of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
He also triggered rousing applause and whistles when he said if elected president, “my first foreign trip will not be to Cairo, or Riyadh or Ankara, it will be to Jerusalem.”
Obama visited all three Muslim capitals early in his presidency, but has yet to visit Jerusalem. — AFP.