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Romney hits Obama for “legitimizing” Iran with letter to Khamenei

Nov 8, 2014 3:30 pm By Robert Spencer

obama-vs-romney-slugfest-cover1Romney is right. But Obama’s presidency has been all about legitimizing the illegitimate and delegitimizing the legitimate. This letter to the Ayatollah is of a piece with his Justice Department’s close and friendly relationship with the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and shunning of counter-jihadists.

“Mitt Romney hits President Obama on Iran letter,” by Lucy McCalmont, Politico, November 7, 2014:

Mitt Romney slammed President Barack Obama on Friday for reaching out to Iran in the fight against Islamic State militants, calling the president’s recent letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “astonishing” and “an enormous error.”

“I was frankly stunned that the president of the United States would write a letter of that nature and in effect, legitimize a nation and a leadership which is violating international norms and is threatening the world,” the 2012 Republican presidential candidate told the audience of the Israeli American Council’s inaugural national conference at the Washington Hilton.

“To suggest that we might somehow work together is something which is so far beyond the pale, I was speechless as I heard about it,” Romney said. “I simply can’t understand it.”

Romney’s comments follow news that Obama wrote a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader as the deadline for a nuclear deal at the end of month draws closer, the Associate Press reported Thursday.

However, while reports said the letter emphasized a shared interest in defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the administration would not confirm the letter and denied efforts of military cooperation with Iran.

“The United States will not cooperate militarily with Iran in that effort,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “We won’t share intelligence with them.”

Romney said the United States should treat Iran as it did South Africa, in which the country was considered a “pariah” and their leaders shunned from international bodies….

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  1. Bezelel says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    Very good photo !!! I hope Romney sees it.

  2. duh_swami says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 4:45 pm

    That’s the third letter Rasool sent the Ayatollah…I wonder if they start with, ‘In the name of Allah the most merciful…’

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 8, 2014 at 6:11 pm

      They probably do. Or at least that line is in there somewhere. Seriously.

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 10:31 pm

    The US is enlisting the Shi’ites in a war to fight Sunnis who are Obama’s friends. The ‘friendly’ Sunnis are fighting the ‘bad’ Shi’ites in Damascus. The ‘good’ Sunnis fighting the ‘bad’ Shi’ites are being slaughtered by the ‘bad’ Sunnis, so the ‘good’ Shi’ites have to help slaughter the ‘bad’ Sunnis fighting the ‘bad’ Shi’ites.

    I hope you are following carefully.

  4. Salah says

    Nov 9, 2014 at 1:24 am

    ISIS is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood (Obama’s masters.) This administration will never fight against its own creation.
    Obama might approve a few air strikes every now and then, but that’s only a saving face strategy. He will NEVER obliterate ISIS. How could he, they are running the W.H.

  5. Almach says

    Nov 9, 2014 at 7:23 am

    Obama has to be impeached and judged for treason.

  6. Blitz2b says

    Nov 9, 2014 at 12:15 pm

    All this sunni and shia fighting makes your head spin… Here’s a little humor about these mainstream fanatical Muslim sects.

    Q: What is the difference between singing duo “Sonny & Cher ” and mainstream Muslim sects “Sunni & Shia”?
    A: The former ones sang the catchy “… I’ve got you babe…” While the latter ones sing “… I’ve got Jew hate…”
    Looks like our POTUS prefers the latter’s hit…

  7. Bernard Sussman says

    Nov 10, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    Has Alzheimer’s swept the room? Doesn’t anyone remember when Saint Ronnie the Redneck sent WEAPONS to the Iranians? All Obama sent was a letter, and to an Iranian leader a good deal more moderate than the one Reagan was arming, and in the midst of a major near eastern upheaval that might throw Iran into cooperating with us.

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