Clinton Stresses Diplomacy With Iran

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By Josh Rogers on Thursday, October 11, 2007.
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Campaigning in Canterbury yesterday, Hillary Clinton said she would engage in negotiations with Iran without conditions to address potential nuclear threats.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Josh Rogers has more.

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Hillary Clinton's comments come more than two months after she chastised Democratic rival Barack Obama for recommending essentially the same thing: talks without preconditions.

Clinton had been asked by a voter if it would be acceptable for Iran to develop a nuclear bomb. She said that's not something she wants to see happen, and went on to say how she'd try to prevent it.

"I would engage in negotiations with Iran, with no conditions, because we don't really understand how Iran works. We think we do, from the outside, but I think it is misleading."

Clinton also called for sanctions against Iran to give the US more leverage at the bargaining table.

The New York Senator recently voted for a resolution labeling that country's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, a move she says was intended to increase diplomatic pressure, not to embolden President Bush to take military action.

For NHPR News, I'm Josh Rogers.

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