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On the recordMay 6, 2009
To do so will require not just diplomacy but, I liked your adjective, coercive diplomacy, and probably the most effective thing we can do is to put very strict severe economic sanctions on them or the threat of those.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Lieberman advocates for coercive diplomacy and strict economic sanctions against Iran.

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