Again, we're not at war with the Iranian people. It's the terrorist regime that's trying to run that country that is at war with us. And The President has made it very clear that if they begin to kill their own people and slaughter them, that the United States will be forced to interfere at that point. And I would back the president in having that strategy of protecting the Iranian people from the right to restore their country to what it used to be in the 1970s. (11:58–12:05)
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