Hillary Clinton Talks Tough on Iran Nukes

I think it's clear that we're trying to affect the internal calculus of the Iranian regime. You know, the Iranian government...has to know that its pursuit of nuclear weapons, something that our country along with our allies strand strongly against - we believe as a matter of policy it is unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons...so we are united in our continuing commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. What we want to do is send a message to whoever is making these decisions that if you're pursuing nuclear weapons for the purpose of intimidating, of projecting your power, we're not going to let that happen. First, we're going to do everything we can to prevent you from ever getting a nuclear weapon. But your pursuit is futile, because we will never let Iran - nuclear armed, not nuclear armed - it is something that we view with great concern, and that's why we're doing everything we can to prevent that from ever happening...You have a right to pursue the peaceful use of civil nuclear power, you do not have a right to obtain a nuclear weapon, you do not have the right to have the full enrichment and reprocessing cycle under your control. But there's a lot that we can do with Iran if Iran accepts what is the international consensus.

- Hillary Clinton