Barack Obama actually said...

The measures in this order are designed primarily to address the need to prevent entities located in whole or in part in Iran and Syria from facilitating or committing serious human rights abuses.

Context

Executive Order 13606—Blocking the Property and Suspending Entry into the United States of Certain Persons With Respect to...

04/21/2012

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