Barack's statement on Iranian missile testing

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Barack's statement on Iranian missile testing

By http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/person/CLWB">Laurin Manning - Jul 9th, 2008 at 11:19 am EDT

Barack made the following statement on http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070900235.html?hpid=topnews">the testing of long-range missiles in Iran today:

These missile tests demonstrate once again that we need to change our policy to deal aggressively with the threat posed by the Iranian regime. Through its nuclear program, missile capability, meddling in Iraq, support for terrorism, and threats against Israel, Iran now poses the greatest strategic challenge to the United States in the region in a generation. Now is the time to work with our friends and allies, and to pursue direct and aggressive diplomacy with the Iranian regime backed by tougher unilateral and multilateral sanctions. It's time to offer the Iranians a clear choice between increased costs for continuing their troubling behavior, and concrete incentives that would come if they change course.

As these tests have reaffirmed, the threat from Iran's nuclear program is real and it is grave. As President, I will do everything in my power to eliminate that threat, and that must begin with direct, aggressive, and sustained diplomacy.

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1. Good work Obama