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On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
I certainly believed, when I was voting for those sanctions, that, should Iran choose a different path when it comes to a nuclear weapons future, that we would engage in a conversation about withdrawing some of those sanctions.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy discusses the conditional nature of sanctions based on Iran's nuclear decisions.

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