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Barack Obama: “If we cannot get the kind of comprehensive end state that satisfies us and the world community and the P-5-plus-1, then…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2013
If we cannot get the kind of comprehensive end state that satisfies us and the world community and the P-5-plus-1, then the pressure that we've been applying on them and the options...including a military option, is one that we would consider and prepare for.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Saban Forum

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