In speech focused on economy and domestic issues, Obama briefly promises ‘not to waver’ on Israel’s security and Iran

In his acceptance speech Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, US President Barack Obama promised not to waver on Israel’s security and to keep the world united against the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions.

The speech focused on economic difficulties, including deficit reduction, health care and job creation, and took pride in the administration position on social issues. But the president spent several minutes in the middle of the speech laying out foreign policy commitments for his second term.

“Our commitment to Israel’s security must not waver and neither must our pursuit of peace,” he said to applause.

“The Iranian government must face a world that stays united against its nuclear ambitions,” he added.

His first administration, Obama said, “strengthened old alliances and forged new coalitions to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.”

He then mocked Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s foreign policy credentials.

“My opponent and his running mate are,” he paused to laughter, “new to foreign policy. But from all that we’ve seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost us so dearly.”

Obama mocked Romney for calling Russia the top geopolitical adversary of the United States, saying the Republican ticket seemed “stuck in a cold war mind-warp.”