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About Elliott Abrams
American politician and lawyer
Elliott Abrams is an American politician and lawyer associated with U.S. foreign policy in the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump administrations. He is considered a neoconservative and has 221 quotes on the site. He is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2019 to 2021, he served as U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela, and from 2020 to 2021, as U.S. Special Representative for Iran.
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