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The foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iraq calling it Havana

and beginning of February, Hussein Amir Abdullah, he and that incident,

that state visit requires interpretation.

So I welcome Mary Anastasia O'Grady, the America's columnist and editor for the

Wall Street Journal editorial board to take us from Havana and the state visit of a member of

the cabinet of the Islamic Republic. And what does this mean about Cuban-American

relationships in the Biden administration?

Mary, a very good evening to you, you're a very good detective here.

The foreign minister calls and several days later there's an exchange between the President

of the United States and the very powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,

Mr. Menendez of New Jersey. How do these events connect Mary? Good evening to you.

Well, good evening, John. I think the thing that Americans have to keep in mind is that Joe Biden

has wanted to change Cuba policy to go back to the Obama policy of engagement with Cuba,

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