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Tim Kaine: “The US is trying to get a negotiation done to control Iran's…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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If You Make Diplomacy Impossible, You Make War Inevitable

Published | Video Starts at 00:40

I want it to be extended. I want it to be permanent. But the fact that the US Is now negotiating to reopen the Straits of Hormuz, it was open before the war. The US is trying to get a negotiation done to control Iran's nuclear program. It was controlled under the Obama administration until President Trump tore up a diplomatic deal. And many of us told him at the time, if you make diplomacy impossible, you will make war inevitable. (00:40–00:47)

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Asserts that the US is negotiating to control Iran's nuclear program.

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