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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

Editor's note · Context

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

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