Markwayne Mullin: “Ayatollah was chanting death to America and was building…”

“Underneath the Bush administration and the Biden administration administration and the Obama administration, they tried to negotiate the enrichment process, you know, for peaceful energy development. But we also knew the whole time that Ayatollah was chanting death to America and was building these delivery systems where they could deliver a nuclear weapon. And then we found out their enrichment was reaching that percentage point to where there was a point of no return. There's no way we can allow that to happen.” (00:44–00:52)

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