Secretary Rubio, I've heard some of my colleagues here on this committee suggest that the US started a war with the Iranian regime 92 days ago. I happen to believe that The Iranian regime started a war against the West and Israel and has been at war with us since 1979. What's your view? Well, if you go back to 1979 and the taking hostages and build it out from there, I don't know the numbers, if we could even add them up, it's incalculable. (00:13–00:24)
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Asserts that Iran has been at war with the West and Israel since 1979.
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