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        <title><![CDATA[Behnam Ben Taleblu - Research Fellow]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Behnam Ben Taleblu is a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[As Europe Dithers, Iran’s Arsenal Gets More Deadly]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The EU keeps condemning Tehran’s illegal ballistic missile tests but hasn’t acted to stop them.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Behnam Ben Taleblu]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:00:26 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An Iranian military truck carries surface-to-air missiles past a portrait of Iran&apos;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a parade on the occasion of the country&apos;s annual army day on April 18, 2018, in Tehran. President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran &quot;does not intend any aggression&quot; against its neighbours but will continue to produce all the weapons it needs for its defence. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Making Iran Sanctions Hit Harder This Time]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The U.S. should close the loophole on petroleum condensate exports.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen R. Wald]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A picture taken on March 12, 2017, shows a view of an oil facility in the Khark Island, on the shore of the Gulf. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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