“In 1977, Iran was more western than maybe the United States. They had more women elected to public office… Now, women get stoned for teaching their girls arithmetic.”
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) joined CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on The Source to discuss the political unrest in Iran. The Senator expressed his desire for the Iranian people to reclaim their country and warned Iran’s regime that President Trump does not bluff. Highlights below.
The full interview can be found HERE.
On what Iran looked like before the Shah was overthrown:
“I was born in 1977. In 1977, Iran was more western than maybe the United States. They had more women elected to public office, they had more women in the workforce than even the United States. You saw that change with the overthrow of [the] Shah in 1979, and now, women get stoned for teaching their girls arithmetic or how to read. ”
On the need for the Iranian people to choose their own leader — not the United States:
“What we want is for the Iranian people to literally have the ability to live their life again…
“We’re not into regime change, this isn’t the Arab Spring like what happened under Secretary Clinton, but this is the people of Iran standing up to a murderous regime…
“I’m for the strikes, that’s different than regime change. Regime change is up to the Iranian people. We’re not going actively to remove the regime; we’re going after the people that are killing their own people.”
On the redline President Trump has drawn against the Iranian regime:
“They’re murdering their own citizens. I want to just use a factual number that’s in everybody’s mind, if that number is true, that it’s 12,000 to 20,000 [casualties], let’s just use the 12,000 people that they’re saying has that have been killed that we know of, that’s four times the amount of people that was killed on 9/11…
“As we know, the president doesn’t bluff. He moves on his own time, everything he’s said he’s able to do.
During the 12 Day War, the president made it very clear to the Iranian regime [that] we know where you’re at, but we’re choosing not to hit you. If we knew where they were at that point, we know where they’re at today.”
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