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Brad Sherman: We owe a special debt of gratitude to the mullahs who run Iran because it is their incompetence and corruption that…

On the recordNovember 1, 2011
We owe a special debt of gratitude to the mullahs who run Iran because it is their incompetence and corruption that creates some risk to regime survival.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman attributes Iran's instability to the regime's own failures.

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