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On the recordApril 22, 2010
I disagree very much with the gentleman's contention that our effort to seek to change Iranian behavior and to reverse Iran's decision to pursue nuclear weapons through the imposition of strong, robust, meaningful economic sanctions... is going to cause the Iranian people to turn against us on behalf of their regime. These are people who have risked their lives, their freedom, their liberty. They have been subject to execution, murder, imprisonment, all kinds of repression... I would suggest that those people will know more than anyone that the consequences that are befalling the people of Iran are a result of the regime's behavior, not the international community and America's efforts to change Iran's behavior.
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Howard Berman
California
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The speaker addresses the impact of economic sanctions on Iran and the resilience of its people against the regime.

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