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On the recordDecember 9, 2013
Mr. Rouhani is a smooth talker, in my opinion. He is different from Ahmadinejad, who was a flamethrower, a bomb thrower, with his rhetoric, but he seems to continue to hang his own people and smile in the process of that.
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Joe Wilson
Republican · South Carolina

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Joe Wilson critiques Iranian President Rouhani's deceptive diplomacy.

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