Over the weekend, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OH) said that it was time for Iran to be held accountable for its support of terrorism across the world.
Mullin made his comments during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash after being asked about how concerned he was over the rising tension in the Middle East.
“It’s already been escalated,” he said. “At this point, what they need to know is that it’s not peace through appeasement. It’s peace through strength. And there should be no daylight between us and Israel right now. Israel had the right to do what they did. They took out the leader of Hamas that was — that Tehran was aiding and abetting and was harboring, obviously. He was there.”
“This is no different than us going after Osama bin Laden when he was in Pakistan,” he continued. “This is the organization that attacked them on October 7 that Iran has funded. And we have known that, that they’re funding a terrorist organization. And for them to go out and take the leader out, they have every right to do that.”
Mullin said that the fact that the Biden-Harris Administration was trying to create some separation between the United States and Israel showed “weakness.”
“If President Trump was in office, this wouldn’t even be an issue,” he said. “And I mean that, because they were afraid of President Trump. They knew that he had — he led peace through strength, not peace of appeasement, and that his word meant something. There would be no daylight between us and Israel if President Trump’s administration was in place.”
He added that since Iran feels emboldened by the Biden-Harris Administration that “you’re seeing the snake raise its head, and the snake is Iran. And that head needs to be cut off.”
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK): “You're seeing the snake raise its head, and the snake is Iran. And that head needs to be cut off.” pic.twitter.com/fihmIXhTYL
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) August 4, 2024
