James Lankford: “The Iranian regime is the largest state sponsor of terrorism…”

“It is an awful situation. The Iranian people live under the oppression of the Iranian regime there, as the rest of the region does. The Iranian regime is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. They fund Hezbollah, they fund Hamas, they fund all these different Shia militant groups in Iraq. They're involved in terrorism literally all over the world.” (05:31–05:36)

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