He had been in negotiations to try and persuade Iran to abandon Iran. It's terrorism, quite frankly. It's the largest sponsor of state terrorism. It's a country that Iran has killed tens of thousands of people since the regime came into existence in 1979. At least 1,000 of those have been Americans. American soldiers at the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. American maybe that was 84. I'm sorry, Americans in Iraq when we were there, in force. (07:08–07:19)
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Asserts that the Iranian regime has killed tens of thousands of people since 1979.
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