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Nominee for top Middle East post says admin insists on Iranian nuclear dismantlement
Joel Rayburn, nominee to be assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, said Iran ‘does not need and should not have’ domestic nuclear enrichment capabilities
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Joel Rayburn, then-deputy assistant secretary for Levant affairs and special envoy for Syria, speaks during a session on reconciliation and reconstruction at the 2019 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in Jordan on April 6, 2019.
Joel Rayburn, the Trump administration’s nominee to be assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, said at his confirmation hearing on Thursday that Iran should not be allowed to continue to enrich uranium in any capacity.
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