Mike Rounds: “Iran is the number one sponsor of terrorism in the world.”

“I just wanted to make it clear to the American people in a public setting that there were real reasons why we had to address the threat coming from Iran. Iran is the number one sponsor of terrorism in the world. and they were continuing to, to promote that and to go after Americans around the Middle East. So that's where my questioning was at.” (01:38–01:47)

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