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Darrell Issa: “We have gone 35 years with a government that funds and exports terrorism, who has used its vast oil wealth not even to…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2015
We have gone 35 years with a government that funds and exports terrorism, who has used its vast oil wealth not even to create in their country, even to create the ability to refine their own oil into gasoline.
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Darrell Issa
Republican · California

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Darrell Issa reflects on Iran's long history of funding terrorism and misusing oil wealth.

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