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Ron Johnson: “Iran was one of the greatest destabilizing factors in…”

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Sen. Johnson's questioning at a Foreign Relations hearing on ISIS

Published September 16, 2015 | Video Starts at 01:37

And now we've got 7.6 million Syrians displaced within Syria, 4 million refugees, and we're starting to see hundreds of thousands flow into Europe. I want to talk a little bit about Iran's role in the Middle East. Anybody dispute that Iran was one of the greatest destabilizing factors in [Iraq]. Iran in Iraq? I mean, so I mean we definitely won the Iraq war and then we lost it largely because Iran destabilized it. Correct. Backing the Shiites militias. (01:37–01:40)

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