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Tim Kaine: “The United States invaded Iran's next door neighbors to the…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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The Iran War Needs to End

Published | Video Starts at 09:52

In the late 1980s, a US Navy vessel, the Vincennes, shot down an Iranian commercial aircraft, killing 290 civilians. It took us years to admit that we did it, but we eventually admitted that The United States invaded Iran's next door neighbors to the east and west to topple their governments, Afghanistan and Iraq. And Iran believed, well, you toppled our government in 1953. You, you're probably preparing to do it again. And this recent war on Iran, we've wiped out their leadership. (09:52–10:00)

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Asserts that the US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq to topple their governments.

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