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James Lankford: “The Iranian regime is the problem, not the Iranian people.”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Published January 29, 2026 | Video Starts at 04:22

We have well over 10,000 people that we know of and the numbers continue to climb that are protesters that have been killed on the streets of Iran. The Iranian regime is the problem, not the Iranian people. The Iranian regime murders their own people. They intimidate everybody in the entire Middle East. They are the main proxy for terrorism. (04:22–04:26)

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Asserts that the Iranian regime, not the people, is the problem.

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