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Chuck Schumer: “Iran still has an ayatollah named Khamenei. The Iranian…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Sen. Schumer Calls for End to War with Iran

Published | Video Starts at 01:37

So in the short term, we're not in much better shape, and in the long term, we're in much worse shape when it comes to all the oil that has to go out of the straits. Second, the Iranian regime. Iran still has an ayatollah named Khamenei. The Iranian regime is still standing. Not just standing, but now emboldened. And the regime is likely to be even more radical and more dangerous than it was before. So it's worse. Trump's Iran war has strengthened the Iranian regime and made the United States position worse. (01:37–01:48)

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Asserts that the Iranian regime remains in power and is emboldened.

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