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Jack Reed: “I do not think that the people who rose up in 2009 in the Green Movement... would call that government a…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2013
I do not think that the people who rose up in 2009 in the Green Movement... would call that government a legitimately-elected government.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Reed questions the legitimacy of the Iranian government post-2009 protests.

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