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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Bipartisan letter to Blinken calls for any deal with Iran to address ‘full range of threats’
A group of 140 representatives, 70 Democrats and 70 Republicans, have sent a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging him to ensure that any agreement or set of agreements that the Biden administration reaches with Iran “comprehensively address the full range of threats that Iran poses to the region.”
The AIPAC-organized letter cites states that any agreement “must address three core tenets: “their nuclear program, their ballistic missile program, and their funding of terrorism.”
“As Democrats and Republicans from across the political spectrum, we are united in preventing an Iranian nuclear weapon and addressing the wide range of illicit Iranian behavior,” the letter reads.