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Bob Menendez: What Khamenei obsesses about is not U.S. hard power or U.S. military action, it is U.S. soft power and this idea of a…

On the recordMarch 27, 2012
What Khamenei obsesses about is not U.S. hard power or U.S. military action, it is U.S. soft power and this idea of a soft or velvet revolution.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez discusses Khamenei's focus on U.S. influence rather than military threats.

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