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Tim Kaine: “If we could go back to that status quo, it seems to me that the status quo then was we had sanctions.”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
If we could go back to that status quo, it seems to me that the status quo then was we had sanctions.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Kaine contrasts the current deal with the previous sanctions regime against Iran.

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