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James Lankford: “We're looking at an estimate of over 2000 people have been…”

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

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Lankford Discusses Iran, Greenland, and March for Life on Durant's KLBC Radio

Published | Video Starts at 05:14

But first of all, that how many, from your perspective and from what you're hearing from official sources, how many people have lost their lives and those riots and apparently executed by the Iran government? Yeah, We're looking at an estimate of over 2000 people have been murdered by the Iranian regime just in the last two weeks. It is an awful situation. The Iranian people live under the oppression of the Iranian regime there, as the rest of the region does. (05:14–05:22)

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Asserts that over 2000 people have been killed by the Iranian regime in the last two weeks.

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