“The people of Iran must rise up and demand their rights,” Rep. Brad Sherman, D.-Calif., one of the co-sponsors, told a packed crowd of fellow lawmakers and Iran nationals on Capitol Hill.
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He added that the resolution calling for a new U.S. policy toward Iran was backed by 75 House Democrats and 148 Republicans.
Noting that his fellow Californian, conservative Republican Tom McClintock, was also a co-sponsor, Sherman quipped that “we go back 40 years and this may be one thing on which we are on the same side.”
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