Ted Cruz: “After the Tehran directed atrocity against Israel In October…”

“Iran's Iraqi catspaw Abu Mahdi Al Mohandis and 10 senior Iranian briefers and bodyguards were also killed in the strike. After 20 years of Bush, Obama and Biden kid gloves, Tehran was legitimately frightened. And then After the Tehran directed atrocity against Israel In October 2023, Israel killed Yahassinwar Mohammed, Deef, Hasran Nasrallah, Ibrahim Akil, Hashem Safedine and Ismail Haniyyah at an IRGC safehouse in Tehran and almost 100 more in Lebanon and Gaza. Deprived of its decapitated Hezbollah Praetorian guard, the Syrian Ba'ath Party didn't trust its own people any more than the Bolivarian Maduro trusted Venezuelans more than Cubans.” (18:03–18:27)

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