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On the recordMarch 4, 2013
I believe this regime, knowing it can't win the affections of its own people, I think they are very concerned that the economic sanctions could turn the people against them.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham discusses the potential impact of sanctions on the Iranian regime's stability.

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