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Ted Cruz: “The Ayatollah had an ICBM program.”

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Sean Hannity Interviews Senator Ted Cruz on U.S. Military Strikes in Iran

Published | Video Starts at 02:01

… we will defend America because understand the nuclear weapons the Ayatollah was trying to build, his objective was to use those against the United States of America. There's a reason The Ayatollah had an ICBM program. And icbm, as you know, it stands for intercontinental ballistic missile. You do not need an ICBM for Iran to fire a missile at Israel. (02:01–02:04)

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Asserts that Iran's Ayatollah had an intercontinental ballistic missile program.

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