By Toby Harnden In Boca Raton, Florida Mitt Romney will attack President Barack Obama for his 'naive' intention to meet President Ahmadinejad of Iran and warn Americans that the President will hold talks with U.S. adversaries if he is re-elected, according to a senior Romney aide. In July 2007, Obama answered a debate question about whether he would meet 'without precondition' in the first year of his administration 'the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea'. Obama responded: 'I would.' He did not renounce this during the rest of the 2008 campaign. No such talks have ever happened but a weekend report in the 'New York Times' - denied by the White House - that the U.S. has held secret talks with Iran as a prelude to formal negotiations after the election makes Obama freshly vulnerable on the topic, the Romney campaign believes.
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In 2007, Obama said he would meet leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela and North Korea
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New attack ad claims Romney would have kept 30,000 troops in Iraq
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Obama says he brought 30,000 home from Afghanistan - but he has doubled troops there
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Tonight's foreign policy event will be final debate before Election Day
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Latest national polls show Romney just ahead as disastrous performance by Obama in first debate lingers
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Moderator will be long-time CBS newsman Bob Schieffer
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Obama likely to highlight his successful order to kill Osama bin Laden
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