Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in an interview published late Friday, called the Iranian leadership “evil” and said he would consider decapitating the Tehran regime if elected. “I see Iran’s leadership as evil,” the former Massachusetts governor told The Wall Street Journal.
“I see Iran as intent on building, once again, an evil empire based upon the resources of the Middle East.” Romney said he disagreed with President Barack Obama when he says the United States has shared interests with all the world’s people. “There are people who are evil,” he argued.
“There are people who have as their intent the subjugation and repression of other people; they are evil. America is good.” Romney said he did not have access to secret government intelligence and, therefore, could not make a decision now about the course he would pursue to stop Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions.
But he said “the range includes something of a blockade nature, to something of a surgical strike nature, to something of a decapitate-the-regime nature, to eliminate the military threat of Iran altogether.”
Romney calls Iran leaders ‘evil’
