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Ted Cruz: “The mullahs, I don't think, care at all about their people.”

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Published | Video Starts at 28:03

And that may be how much they're holding on for dear life just to try to save control. But I agree with You. I don't think they think he's bluffing at all. Well, and that's the challenge, is that The mullahs, I don't think, care at all about their people. We talked before about comparing, say, the Nazi army to the Allies during World War II, that Hitler was willing to send German soldiers in to die and just have them mowed over. (28:03–28:08)

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Asserts that the Iranian mullahs do not care about their people.

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