Mr Latham suggested that "Huntley's diversionary tactics" often occurred just before or after phone conversations with Ms Carr.

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They are also probably a precipitating factor in the kind of provocative statements and diversionary tactics that the Iranians have used to try to change the subject from the fact that they will not abide by their international obligations, and that is why they are the subject of this kind of pressure and this kind of isolation.

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