Mike Johnson: “Iran has defiantly maintained its nuclear program.”

“They tried to respond to the Iranian regime's just their ongoing, sustained, insistent nuclear ambitions and development, their terrorism, their murder of Americans and even their own people. I mean, tens of thousands of them in the last few weeks. For decades, Iran has defiantly maintained its nuclear program. We've all been watching that our whole lives. They've been arming and funding Hamas and Hezbollah and all these other radical terrorist organizations wreaking havoc across the world.” (01:09–01:13)

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