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Eliot Engel: “I did not vote for the JCPOA because I felt it did not prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons, it only postponed it.”

On the recordJune 18, 2019
I did not vote for the JCPOA because I felt it did not prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons, it only postponed it.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel explains his reasons for opposing the Iran nuclear deal.

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