Stacey Abrams: “We toppled the previous ayatollah, although we are recording…”

“Maria San, welcome to Assembly Required. Thanks for having me, Stacy. Okay, so it's now been over a week since America entered into our new reality of launching war against Iran. We toppled the previous ayatollah, although we are recording this on Monday, and there is now a new one. The Trump administration has given a variety of different rationales for why we're doing this, including an imminent threat from Iran's nuclear program, a threat from Iran's ballistic missile program, …” (01:41–01:49)

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