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Markwayne Mullin: “We're freeing the Iranian people from the Ayatollah to allow…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

MULLIN: 'We were funding a war against ourselves.' | Ed Henry The Big Take

Published March 1, 2026 | Video Starts at 01:24

The fact is, the President has given the Iranian people something that every president since 1979 thought needed to be done, and President Trump is actually doing it. We're freeing the Iranian people from the Ayatollah to allow them to choose the country they choose to live in. This isn't a war with Iran. We never went to war with the Iranian people. (01:24–01:32)

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Asserts that U.S. actions are aimed at liberating the Iranian people from the Ayatollah's regime.

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