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Brian Schatz: “He wanted unconditional surrender from the Iranian regime…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Published | Video Starts at 01:12

He wanted to abolish their nuclear ambitions, and that has not happened. Any agreement on nuclear weapons still needs to be negotiated and is very unlikely to be better than the original deal under President Obama. He wanted unconditional surrender from the Iranian regime, and that certainly has not happened. They're still there. They're more radical and they're more emboldened. He wanted to liberate the Iranian people, and that has not happened either. (01:12–01:20)

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Asserts that the Iranian regime has not unconditionally surrendered.

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