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

Published | Video Starts at 13:42

Millions of the people of Iran do not want to live under these Islamist dictators who murder and torture and oppress them. We saw at the beginning of this conflict, heroic protesters stand up and The regime killed, somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 of them [protesters]. It is not fair to expect an Iranian citizen to fight with rocks against soldiers with machine guns. That's not a fair fight. (13:42–13:52)

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Asserts that the Iranian regime killed between 10,000 and 40,000 protesters.

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