WJC President Ronald Lauder welcomes ‘firm and appropriate’ US response to renewed Iran aggression

WJC President Ronald Lauder welcomes ‘firm and appropriate’ US response to renewed Iran aggression

 

 

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 07 February 2017

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Small blog ballistic WJC President Ronald Lauder welcomes ‘firm and appropriate’ US response to renewed Iran aggression“It is imperative that the entire international community recognize that we are dealing with an erratic and dangerous regime with enormously destructive nuclear capabilities at its fingertips,” says Lauder.
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