Iran no longer a ‘nuclear-powered pariah state'
'If the peace holds, you might be looking at the most stabilising event in the Middle East since the 1979 Iranian revolution,' Mr Mulvaney told Sky News Australia.
'You're talking about Iran maybe no longer being a pariah state, certainly not being a nuclear-powered pariah state.'
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