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Ron Johnson: “There's 200,000 in the Revolutionary Guard. There's another…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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US Sen. Ron Johnson on the war with Iran and its mission | Here & Now

Published | Video Starts at 03:53

How does that work? How do the Iranians take over their country? That's going to be very difficult. I mean there's again, there's no guarantee whatsoever. There's 200,000 in the Revolutionary Guard. There's another 600,000 in their militias. The brutal militias that slaughtered 32,000 Iranians in just a few days. There were 16 or 17,000 executions in the French Revolution. 2,000 to 5,000 executions during the Spanish Inquisition. (03:53–04:00)

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Asserts the size of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and militias.

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