Robert Gates actually said...

Their ambitions are to have a dominant role at least in the Middle East to continue their pattern of terrorism directly and through Hezbollah and to enhance their position by the acquisition of nuclear weapons.

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Gates outlines Iran's ambitions and the threat they pose.

01/20/2015

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