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Eliot Engel: “We have never authorized strikes against Iran, and to say otherwise is just not factually correct.”

On the recordJanuary 13, 2020
We have never authorized strikes against Iran, and to say otherwise is just not factually correct.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Clarifying the legal differences between strikes against al-Qaeda and Iran.

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