James Lankford: “They [the Iranian regime] hang teenagers for protesting.”

“They've killed tens of thousands of their own people. They dominate them. They cut off the Internet, they cut off all access to the outside world. They crush protesters, they. They [the Iranian regime] hang teenagers for protesting. I mean, this is a brutal regime that hates its own people and dominates its own people, much less what they're doing to the rest of the world.” (01:12–08:46)

This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.