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On the recordMay 12, 2015
Many of us in this committee have decried the fact that the Iranian regime's deplorable human rights record and its persecution of religious minorities were not made a part of the nuclear negotiations from day one.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Ros-Lehtinen criticizes the exclusion of Iran's human rights abuses from nuclear talks.

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