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On the recordOctober 12, 2011
Did our support of basically the dislocation or removal of the government there undermine our foreign policy objectives in Iran?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Merkley questions if U.S. actions in Libya affected its Iran policy.

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