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Senator Ted Cruz was a guest on Hannity after Iran attacked the U.S. bases in the Iraq on Tuesday. He boldly reminded Americans that the missiles were purchased with the nearly $200 billion that the Obama Administration gifted Iran in the previous decade.
Cruz pointed out that President Trump is not going to make the same mistakes that Obama made and he is going to deal with Iran differently.
An important step in that strategy was to eliminate Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a person that Cruz calls “the most dangerous terrorist in the world” who planned the attack on the U.S. Embassy just days earlier.
Daily Wire reported on Cruz’s appearence.
“If you look at Iran policy I think you’ve seen a dramatic shift. Under Barack Obama, the policy was appeasement,” Cruz said. “The policy under the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal under Obama was to give over $100 billion to Iran. They literally flew $1.7 billion in cash in unmarked bills on pallets in the dead of night into Iran.”
Cruz continued, “In a very real sense, the missiles that we saw fired on U.S. service men and women tonight were paid for by the billions the Obama administration flooded the ayatollah with and if history teaches anything its don’t give billions of dollars who hate you and want to kill you.”
Here is the full clip.
The message from Cruz had the same sentiment as the messages from President Trump. There are consequences for attacking drones, funding terrorism, and fueling insurgencies. Iran is learning that President Trump will not using the same strategy of appeasement.
Cruz also commended the president for using “principles of peace” and showing patience despite being overwhelmingly more powerful than Iran.
