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Ted Cruz: “The Ayatollah had twice hired hitmen to murder President…”

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Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson

Published August 7, 2026 | Video Starts at 27:32

Look, I did Tucker's podcast last year and he sat there. So he, he operates in a truth free environment. So when I pointed out that The Ayatollah had twice hired hitmen to murder President Trump. he just denies it. No, I don't know that. I don't know that. Tee hee hee. As he laughs, his is like high, high Superman villain giggle. (27:32–27:37)

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Asserts that the Ayatollah of Iran hired hitmen to assassinate Donald Trump.

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“Iran's military has been decimated. Most of their ballistic missiles have been eliminated. Most of their drones have been eliminated. Most…”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 03:53-04:02
“The MOU envisioned flowing $300 billion to the Ayatollah.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 05:29-05:39
“They have killed nearly 1,000 Americans over the years.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 11:07-11:12
“The blockade was tremendously successful. It was costing them $500 million a day.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 12:07-12:18
“They sold 70 million barrels of oil and made $6 billion almost overnight.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 12:31-12:39
“The regime killed, somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 of them [protesters].”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 13:42-13:52
“Tucker Carlson has said there is nobody on planet Earth he hates more than Christian Zionists.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 25:46-25:55
“We've apprehended the hitmen and prosecuted them. You can go read the indictment of the hitmen hired by Iran to kill President Trump.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 28:00-28:09
“Qatar funds, they put about $7 billion funding anti American, pro communist, pro Islamist propaganda in US colleges and universities.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 28:38-28:48
“President Trump's decision to take Out Iran's military capacity was the most consequential decision of his second term.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 02:46-02:54
“The prospects of an Iranian nuclear weapon are utterly unacceptable.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 03:07-03:13
“Iran's energy storage was filling up. And when the storage entirely filled up, they would have no choice but to shut in the wells.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 04:17-04:27
“Their oil production had dropped 19%.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 04:45-04:50
“The MOU was a disaster. It was a terrible deal.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 05:02-05:07
“The MOU contemplated lifting sanctions immediately and allowing billions of dollars to flow into Iran.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 05:07-05:29
“A state level and state run disinformation campaign run by Iran targeted my post on May 23rd.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 06:21-06:43
“28.1% of all of the comments targeting my post were fake. That was a very deliberate response from the Iranians.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 07:01-07:11
“If we were to go through with it and give $300 billion or cause others to give $300 billion to Iran, they would use that money to murder…”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 07:57-08:10
“For 47 years, the Islamic Republic has been waging war with America. They have been the world's leading state funder of terrorism for those…”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 10:58-11:08
“Erdogan and Turkey, who despises the Kurds, convinced the administration, don't arm the Kurds.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 14:31-14:38
“The Ayatollah has declared his intention to continue murdering Americans.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 14:41-14:46
“We have a national security imperative to protect Americans.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 14:46-14:50
“Within the Democrat Party, we are witnessing...a communist takeover of the Democrat Party and simultaneously an Islamist takeover.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 16:27-16:41
“Abdul Al Said...is now the Democrat nominee to be in the Senate from the state of Michigan.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 17:15-17:37
“The Democrat nominee for governor [in Wisconsin] is another open communist.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 18:08-18:12
“The dsa, their own documents, their own leadership...are advocating number one, abolish the United States Senate.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 18:23-18:33
“They want to make the President subservient to the House of Representatives.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 18:38-18:44
“They are advocating for seizing the means of production and the government owning and controlling all of the major businesses in America.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 19:10-19:19
“There is a very real and cognizable pro Hamas contingent in the Democrat Party.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 19:39-19:48
“Yesterday in the Senate Judiciary Committee, I chaired a hearing on the Muslim Brotherhood...every single Democrat boycotted the hearing.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 20:16-20:53
“Anti Semitism has been rising on the right in the last 18 months.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 22:20-22:26
“Tucker Carlson is the single most dangerous demagogue in America.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 22:50-22:56
“Tucker Carlson is obsessed with Israel and Jews.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 25:46-25:55
“They funded the anti Semitic protests on college campuses.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 28:47-28:53
“Some of us who are older than 10 years old remember Tucker during the Bush administration, Tucker Carlson was one of the loudest cheerleader…”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 29:05-29:16
“You saw him go to Russia and ooh and ah at the government grocery store.”
Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson | Uploaded August 7, 2026 | 29:46-29:51