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Katrina Lantos Swett: “That vulnerability needs to be exploited, not merely to achieve progress on the nuclear front, but to achieve progress…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2013
That vulnerability needs to be exploited, not merely to achieve progress on the nuclear front, but to achieve progress on the human rights front.
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Katrina Lantos Swett

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Calls for leveraging Iran's vulnerability for human rights advancements.

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