James Lankford: “Iran's been attacking the United States for 47 years.”

“Your thoughts on who we're fighting right now? And we now have had more days of a cease fire than actual war. But it doesn't feel very ceasefiry. No, it doesn't. So Iran's been attacking the United States for 47 years. And when we were fighting a war against Iraq in particular, Iranian forces were actually coming across teaching some of the Shia militants there how to be able to attack Americans, facilitating them with improvised explosive devices.” (02:03–02:07)

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