Former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells Newsmax that Mitt Romney was right â and President Obama wrong â when the GOP candidate said during the Monday debate that a nuclear Iran and not a terrorist attack was the biggest threat to Americaâs national security. The retired 4-star Air Force General also says he is ânot very hopefulâ that negotiations with the Iranians will dissuade them from developing nuclear weapons. And he predicts that a President Romney would âreviewâ Obamaâs exemption of some of Iranâs major trading partners from imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic. ⦠During Mondayâs presidential debate, President Obama stated that the biggest national security threat was an attack by a terrorist organization, and Romney said it was a nuclear-armed Iran. In an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV, Hayden states who he thinks was right. âI was advising the [Romney] campaign, but I did not advise the governor on this question. But I can tell you, I have been giving speeches now for three and a half years since I left the government. The general theme of the speech is what things keep you awake at night, and for three and a half years I have begun with Iran, a nuclear Iran, and pointed out that of all the things I left when I left the government, the one that has gotten increasingly dark, increasingly problematic, has been Iran. âThe governorâs choice was the one that I have been saying since I left government, and I frankly think it is the most destabilizing trend out there, should it come to fruition and the Iranians get the nuclear capability.â In fact, as Hayden points out â and as Romney also argued during the debate â the toughening of sanctions originated in Congress, not in the White House. âThey have really held the presidentâs feet to the fire,â Hayden remarks. Hayden also criticized Obamaâs efforts to provide some exemptions to the sanctions for some of Iranâs trading partners. Hayden told Newsmax that those exemptions undermine the pressure of the sanctions, as well as the symbolic unity that magnifies that pressure. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/24/former-cia-chief-romneys-right-on-iran/