On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued the U.S. should pursue “regime collapse” in Iran by arming protesters in the country, including the Kurds, and said that “I don’t care that Erdogan in Turkey doesn’t like it. It is in our interest not to have a theocratic lunatic leading Iran, who is actively trying to, and, tragically, succeeding in killing Americans, and so, I think we ought to go down that road.” Cruz began by saying, “I think the president has had extraordinary leadership standing up to the threat of Iran. The ayatollah and the Islamic regime there have been waging war with the United States for 47 continuous years. They have been the world’s number one leading funder of terrorism across the globe. They have killed nearly a thousand Americans. And the ayatollah, twice, hired hitmen to try to murder President Trump. And so, President Trump, earlier this year, acted decisively as commander-in-chief to take out their military capacity and to prevent them from acquiring a nuclear weapon. I think he was exactly right to do so. In my view, the objective here should be regime collapse.” He added that “what

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