"For them to be a threat to us or anyone in the region is blown out of proportion"

Mr. Paul told Fox News’s Chris Wallace that he opposes sanctions on Iran. Citing continuous reports over the last decade that Iran was close to making a nuclear weapon, Mr. Paul sounded skeptical that Tehran was about to do so.

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In any event, he said, sanctions were not the way to dissuade Iran from becoming a nuclear state.

“Sanctions are acts of war . . . Don’t put sanctions on them,” Mr. Paul said. Offering friendship to Tehran could be more productive than punishing Iranians through sanctions, he said.

“For them to be a threat to us or anyone in the region is blown out of proportion,” he said.

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