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John Fetterman: “Overall, Iran has been effectively degraded in a way where…”

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

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If anything, you could see like a good opportunity to, to now make, move them more towards Abraham Accord. There are, you know, these small things, but where is all of things beyond those, those small kinds of things? Overall, Iran has been effectively degraded in a way where they really have limited if any capabilities at this point. Why should Congress assert its constitutional role and actually vote to declare war the way it did with Iraq? Well, the last, the last war we've actually declared was World War II. (03:40–03:47)

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Asserts that Iran's capabilities are now very limited.

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