… can only hope and pray is as strong as the one that he tore up from President Obama, but he also has to negotiate to reopen the strait. I mean, For 50 years under the Islamic Republic, the ayatollahs have controlled Iran, and successive US Presidents have succeeded in preventing them from getting a nuclear weapon without starting a war. And none of them allowed Iran to close the strait. (00:50–01:02)
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Asserts that US Presidents have prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons for 50 years without war.
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