McCain: Town Hall Meeting 12/05/07

John McCain
Town Hall Meeting
Manchester, NH 12/05/07

TRANSCRIPT
QUESTIONER: Regarding Iran and all the talk that's about the threat of Iran to America's interests, as president what would you do with the situation in Iran today?

JOHN MCCAIN: [...] there's recent information. Apparently, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate [...] the Iranians have ceased one part of the equation (half the equation) in order to build a nuclear weapon. They've stopped the weaponization side and they continue to 'enrich.' [...] that means the material that goes into the weapon they're still developing.

It's a much shorter time span to build weapons. I'm not sure. I'd like to know how we got this intelligence that reversed it, but, at the end of the day I'd like to just remind you that the Iranians are still an oppressive and repressive government.

The Iranians are dedicated to the extinction of the state of Israel. The Iranians are sponsors of terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah and the Iranians are building and sending into Iraq these most expensive--most explosive and most lethal explosive devices and they are killing young Americans with them. So I'm not ready to make friends with the Iranians yet, but, if there's ways we can make progress with the Iranians, fine, but I still think that they are a threat in the region and I'm not convinced they've given up their nuclear ambitions, but I need to have some more information before reaching that conclusion.

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• 12/05/07