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Ed Markey: While it is the kind of the sotto voce policy of our country that Iran would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon…

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
While it is the kind of the sotto voce policy of our country that Iran would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, the premise of the treaty will be that they are not going to get a weapon
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey emphasizes the treaty's safeguards against Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.

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