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3 December 2011updated 26 Sep 2015 9:16pm

That Iranian embassy gaffe? It wasn’t a gaffe, says Bachmann

Presidential hopeful tries to spin latest GOP foreign policy slip.

By Jon Bernstein

So, she was only talking hypothetically. When Michelle Bachmann, Republican Party candidate and Minnesota Congresswoman, suggested that in the wake of Britain’s withdrawal of embassy staff from Tehran, she would do “exactly” the same if she were president, reporters had simply got the wrong end of the stick.

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3 December 2011

That Iranian embassy gaffe? It wasn’t a gaffe, says Bachmann

Presidential hopeful tries to spin latest GOP foreign policy slip.

By Jon Bernstein

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