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Eliot Engel: “The relationship between a conservative, theocratic government, like Iran, and a number of secular leftist governments…”

On the recordOctober 26, 2009
The relationship between a conservative, theocratic government, like Iran, and a number of secular leftist governments in Latin America seems rather unnatural to me.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel comments on the odd alliance between Iran and Latin American leftist governments.

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