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Nearly four weeks after I sent 10 questions about HCR 362 to Rep. James Langevin, I still have no answer. However Eileen Sadasiv has sent me a copy of a letter she got from Langevin on Iran and she OK'd my sending it further—see below.

Rod Driver, inveterate thorn in the buttocks of the corpus politicus status quo, sent some questions to U.S. Representative Jim Langevin by email, by fax and by certified snail mail on July 3. As of this writing, he hasn’t “yet received even the ‘I-appreciate-hearing-from-you’ form letter.”

The letter below was published in the Warwick Beacon on July 10, the Westerly Sun on July 17, the online edition of the Providence Journal on July 24, and possibly elsewhere.

Our representatives need to answer questions about Iran

Under orders from AIPAC (the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee), Patrick Kennedy and James Langevin co-sponsored HCR 362—a mysterious and dangerous resolution calling for a blockade of Iran.

The U.S. and Iran Show Their True Colors—And They're Not a Rainbow

by John Taraborelli

[Note: This article first appeared in The Agenda #15]

As tensions mount over Iran's nuclear ambitions and Sudan's President
Bashir is denied his seat at the African Union's rotating presidency due to his
regime's perceived complicity in the genocide in Darfur, it is reassuring to to
see a brief moment of unity in increasingly unstable international relations.
On January 26, the New York Times
reported on a vote in the United Nations that demonstrated rare solidarity
between the United States, Iran, Sudan,
Zimbabwe and Cuba. Perhaps
this is a sign that all hope is not lost for peace and cooperation between
these disparate and often contentious nations.