Their air defenses are crushed from the very beginning. Now, what the President has pointed to is the fact that the people of Iran deserve better leadership. And They slaughter their own people by the thousands. They shoot them in the head, they slaughter them in the streets. Yeah, we don't like that. We don't think that's good for Iran. But our goal and our national interest in Iran is they can never have a nuclear weapon. (31:28–31:33)
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Asserts that the Iranian government kills its citizens in large numbers.
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