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Ted Cruz: “The prospects of an Iranian nuclear weapon are utterly…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 03:07

I think it was the right decision. It was a decision I enthusiastically urged him to take. When the Ayatollah chanted death to America, I believed him. And I think The prospects of an Iranian nuclear weapon are utterly unacceptable. That if Iran had a nuclear weapon, I think the odds are unacceptably high that they would use that weapon and that they would use it either in the skies of Tel Aviv or New York or. (03:07–03:13)

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Asserts that the possibility of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is unacceptable.

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