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Ted Yoho: “With the economic sanctions in place, in fact they are so tough that Iran was starving. You know, people were having all…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2015
With the economic sanctions in place, in fact they are so tough that Iran was starving. You know, people were having all these hard times. But while they were doing that, they were funding Hezbollah, they were funding Hamas.
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida

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Yoho highlights Iran's funding of terrorism despite facing economic sanctions.

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