In the US, the Republican Party’s leading presidential candidate in this year’s election, Mitt Romney, declared at a recent debate, “If you elect me as President, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.” His principal challenger, Rick Santorum, told NBC News that he would “order air strikes” if it “became clear that [Iran] was going to get nuclear weapons.”
在美国，排名领先的共和党总统候选人米特•罗姆尼在最近一场辩论中声明：“如果你选我为总统，伊朗就不可能拥有核武器。”而他的主要对手里克•桑托勒姆则在接受美国国家广播公司（NBC）采访时说“如果明确知道（伊朗）即将拥有核武器”，他会“下令空袭”。因此留给总统奥巴马来举棋不定的时间也不多了。