John Cornyn: “Iran's been at war with the west, including the United…”

“But the prospect of a nuclear Iran is just untenable and I applaud the President for taking the steps necessary. But of course, Iran's been at war with the west, including the United States, since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. They chant regularly Death to Israel. Death to the United States. So this is a war that had been going on, but there's only one side had really been conducting the war, and that would be the regime, the theocratic regime in Iran.” (13:02–13:13)

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