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![US Senator Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, talks with reporters at the White House after a meeting on Iran with President Obama in Washington, DC, November 19, 2013. [JIM WATSON/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/450566753.jpg?itok=-spEO9WX "US Senator Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, talks with reporters at the White House after a meeting on Iran with President Obama in Washington, DC, November 19, 2013. [JIM WATSON/Getty Images]")
