James Lankford: “We had hundreds of Americans that died based on Iranians…”

“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. We had hundreds of Americans that died based on Iranians that were coming into Iraq to be able to specifically work, to be able to kill Americans. When I was in Baghdad last year. There's an enormous picture of Soleimani, who we took out in Iraq. That is an Iranian general that was the key person that was focused on attacking Americans.” (02:19–02:28)

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