John Cornyn: “There's nothing to stop the regime from beginning to block…”

“I mean, I think some important things have been accomplished, but I. I'm afraid we'll look back on this and see a missed opportunity to basically eliminate the threat going forward because There's nothing to stop the regime from beginning to block the Strait of Hormuz again, basically at will. And we know that they are driven by an ideology that they're not a normal country. They don't calculate good and bad. They're led by a zeal to basically destroy their enemies, including Israel and the West.” (01:11–01:27)

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