James Lankford: “They've killed tens of thousands of their own people.”

“Just, just to put one of the fine point. America's problem is not with the Iranian people. It's with the regime that is dominating the Iranian people right now. 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 hang teenagers for protesting.” (08:33–08:37)

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