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John Fetterman: “Iran was executing thousands and thousands of young people…”

Featuring: John Fetterman, Democratic | U.S. Senate Pennsylvania

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Published February 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 17:27

Well, it's very important for a lot of reasons. But Israel is always going to be a moral clarity through it because here I did not see a single campus protest as Iran was executing thousands and thousands of young people, just, you know, shooting them in their head. Thousands of thousands. It could be 10, 20,000 or more. I didn't see a protest. I didn't see people showing up in my office and screaming about genocide for all of it. Why? Why? (17:27–17:39)

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Asserts that Iran executed potentially up to 20,000 young people.

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