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Mike Pence: “This is the first time in 47 years that an American…”

Featuring: Mike Pence, Conservative | Former Vice President of the United States | National

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Pence: Trump's Iran draft agreement 'smacks of appeasement'

Published | Video Starts at 06:25

Well, it's much bigger than a mistake. I mean, when the president took that historic step to strike those nuclear facilities last year, This is the first time in 47 years that an American president had taken the fight directly to the mullahs in Tehran. and America was safer as a result. And the fact that he tried diplomacy for the following year to begin to make progress and then finally recognized that we just got to take the fight to them, launched Operation Epic Fury. (06:25–06:33)

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Asserts that the recent military action was the first direct U.S. action against Tehran in 47 years.

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