Ted Cruz: “Virtually all the top leaders of the regime have been…”

“… their air defenses, achieve air superiority, take out their drone manufacturing capacity, take out their drone launch capacity, take out their naval capacity. It's been a remarkable military success and Virtually all the top leaders of the regime have been eliminated. The transition, I believe, is going to be moving Iran from, from a nation that is headed by a government that is radical Islamist and chance death to America and actively devotes millions of dollars to terrorism and trying to kill Americans.” (01:04–01:09)

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