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Lloyd Doggett: “One country, more than any other, benefited from their wrong-headed decision, and was empowered. That country was Iran.…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2016
One country, more than any other, benefited from their wrong-headed decision, and was empowered. That country was Iran. Today, diplomacy, the opposite of war, is hard to start and easy to end. Let us continue on that path. The path ahead remains difficult. Iran will be challenging. We must watch it like a hawk and monitor it, but we need not yield to the hawks who reject peace. {time} 1415
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas
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Jul 12, 2016

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