"This is a rigid regime, it's an ideological regime, it's not even like a communist regime or a fascistic regime. It is a barbaric Islamist regime, and they believe Allah, God, is telling them to do this. People need to understand this is not really a nationstate regime, it is a revolutionary regime. And by revolutionary regime, I mean that their faith as they practice it tells them to conquer the world. So they're not going to give up nukes even if they say they're going to give up nukes at some point. They're going be right back at it. Is that not the history over the last 47 years? I think it is."
"So my view is I agree with Secretary Rubio. I agree that we hit them when we have to hit them, but I don't think tit-for-tat is going to really handle it here. It's a good start. I do think we need to put the metal to the-, pedal to the metal, pick up where we left off militarily, keep choking them off economically. And for God's sakes, armed these people! We keep saying they're in a position to rise up. Well, they rose up! These people rose up like no people I've ever seen before, and they lost 50,000 of their fellow citizens, most of them young people."
"And as I speak to you tonight, they're being hanged one after another. They're being raped, they're being tortured, they're being butchered. What else do these people have to show where they make it clear they want liberation? All I know is this, and maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so. When we armed the Afghan people, the mujahideen in Afghanistan, it worked. When we armed the Angolan rebels, it worked. When we armed all kinds of freedom fighters in Central and South America during the Reagan administration, we pushed communism out of there, not everywher"
A rigid, ideological Islamist regime is described as revolutionary rather than a nation-state government. The regime is said to believe faith requires conquering the world and to continue pursuing nuclear weapons despite claims of eventual surrender. Military action is supported when necessary, but tit-for-tat responses are criticized as insufficient. Economic pressure is urged to “choke” the regime off. The call is to arm the Iranian people, citing their willingness to endure extreme violence and their demonstrated uprising. Examples are provided where arming freedom fighters in Afghanistan, Angola, and parts of Central and South America allegedly helped push back communism.
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