Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has criticized the administration of Barack Obama for what he calls choosing Iran over Israel in fear of losing Iranian oil.
“We’re (the US government) throwing Israel under the bus because we know we’re going to be dependent upon OPEC [the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries],” Santorum said during a speech in Oklahoma City on Thursday.
He claimed Obama is not trying to halt Iran’s nuclear program in order to gain access to the country’s oil.
“The president (Obama) fought tooth and nail against putting sanctions on Iran and only capitulated at the end. This is a president who is not standing by our allies, is trying to appease, trying to find a way to allow – clearly to allow Iran to get this nuclear weapon,” Santorum later told CNN.
This comes while on New Year’s Eve, Obama signed into law economic sanctions against Iran’s Central Bank in an apparent bid to punish foreign companies and banks that do business with the Iranian financial institution.
Santorum further lashed out at US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for disclosing last month the details of Tel Aviv’s possible military action against Tehran.
The United States and Israel have repeatedly threatened Tehran with the “option” of a military strike based on the allegation that Iran’s nuclear program may consist of a covert military aspect.
Tehran, however, refutes such allegations as “baseless” and maintains that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence indicating a diversion in Tehran’s civilian nuclear program.
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Santorum and his wife are underemployed lawyers raising a large family in a rust belt state. They need that AIPAC money, bad.
We must leave isreal to there sins,they picked this fight not the u.s. but if we attack ether syria or iran russia and china are ready to bust americas ass for the first time in history the u.s. is being set up for there first loss.America could actualy lose there first war,not by the hands of iran but by russia ‘china’and the combined islamic forces.
This is a war the u.s. can not win,and i think isreal knows this.
Think about it ,why would russia and china be willing to start ww3 if they did’nt know something.Isreal is the root of this evil and needs to be weeded out as a nation of zionist and the grounds be replanted with a republic based on your god given rights’human rights and the original constitution and let this be a non religous state,because religon has already cost the world so much his tiny ctountry it will not survive
He has Aids,like Clinton said.