What did Mitt Romney predict about war in November 2011?
Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate, former governor of Massachusetts ·
Look, one thing you can know-- and that is if we reelect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon.
Obama re-elected; Iran built no bomb
Romney said reelecting Obama would mean Iran gets a nuclear weapon. Obama was re-elected, and Iran has not built one.
Obama was re-elected in 2012, and Iran has not built a nuclear weapon: U.S. intelligence assessed in March 2025 that Iran was not building one, and in March 2026 described Iran as trying to recover from the devastation of its nuclear infrastructure in the 2025 12-Day War (ODNI Annual Threat Assessments, 2025 and 2026).
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- CBS News/National Journal Republican presidential debate in Spartanburg, South Carolina.