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Ron Johnson: “What we should do is we should institute some severe…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson on Fox News Sunday

Published | Video Starts at 06:53

… but a sunset provision allowing maybe 6,500 centrifuges to continue to spin, that is not a deal that's acceptable. So then what happens? Well, then we're going to have to. What we should do is we should institute some severe sanctions. And that's what, of course, President Obama did, is he relaxed those sanctions. We do not want an economically strong Iran, as well as a strong state sponsor of terrorism around the world. Look at, look at their influence expand in the region. (06:53–07:01)

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