I think that the one thing I have seen time and time again is that Prime Minister Maliki in Iraq and other countries in that region basically reject what Iran is trying to do, view Iran as having a destabilizing influence in that part of the world, do not support Iran and what they do.
Leon Panetta: “I think that the one thing I have seen time and time again is that Prime Minister Maliki in Iraq and other countries in…”
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Panetta asserts that Iraq and its neighbors reject Iran's influence.
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