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Ted Cruz: “If the Ayatollah ever gets a nuclear weapon, I think it's an…”

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And I'll tell you where it mattered enormously. There's no area Lindsey and I worked more closely on than Iran and standing up to the incredible danger to America. If the Ayatollah ever gets a nuclear weapon, I think it's an existential threat to America. I think if the Ayatollah who chants death to America gets a nuclear weapon, I think the odds are unacceptably high that hundreds of thousands or even millions of Americans would be murdered. (40:30–40:35)

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Asserts that a nuclear-armed Iran poses an existential threat to the United States.

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