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Iranian parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on Wednesday that Americans have rejected the Iran war, and the US government should not ignore public opinion by attacking his country again, following a sweeping victory for the Democrats widely seen as a rebuke of the Trump administration. But in a…
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