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The Biden administration's love affair with Iran is even worse than you may think

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Melanie Phillips
May 12, 2021
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The cooling of America’s relations with Saudi Arabia has been largely ascribed to US President Joe Biden’s high-minded concern with human rights. In particular, his administration was apparently upset about Saudi Arabia’s abuses in Yemen, where it has been fighting a brutal war against the Iran-backed Houthis.

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