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Ted Cruz: “It took the Iranian regime 47 years to build that military.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 04:37

Their navy is sunken at the bottom of the ocean. The ayatollah is dead. Many of the mullahs are dead. Many of the senior leadership of the IRGC are dead. It took the Iranian regime 47 years to build that military. It took the US military 39 days to utterly destroy it. I do not believe we should now be rebuilding the military we just destroyed. (04:37–04:48)

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