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https://www.independentsentinel.com/jeff-flake-was-a-foreign-lobbyist-for-a-firm-with-ties-to-iran/
By 2012, Flake had received at least $97,000 from mining interests, including Rio Tinto, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracked donations through the 2010 election cycle. He also voted a number of times against penalties on Iran.
He backed legislation favorable to mining interests in Arizona. In 2011, Flake proposedending a ban on uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon. In 2009 he introduced a land swap bill that would enable Resolution Copper, an arm of Rio Tinto, to develop a mine in eastern Arizona.