Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said he would use air strikes against Iran unless the country dismantled its nuclear program or allowed inspectors to verify that the work isn’t aimed at making a weapon.
“I would be saying to the Iranis, you either open up those facilities, you begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors, or we will degrade those facilities through air strikes,” Santorum said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program today. “Iran will not get a nuclear weapon under my watch.”
Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, has surged in polls of Republicans days before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses. He’s now in third place, according to a Des Moines Register poll released late yesterday.
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