Ted Cruz

And so I'm not sure if this threat will produce different consequences.

I think everything that has unfolded over the last three weeks was reasonably able to be anticipated, and yet the Ayatollah and the mullahs, they charge down the road anyway.

But

I think the president is frustrated with the Strait of Hormuz being shut down.

That's having significant effect on oil prices and gasoline prices.

I will say also, if you look at what we have done in the Navy...

Here's what the chief of CENTCOM said.

More than 8,000 Iranian targets have been hit.

130 vessels have been destroyed, which is the largest elimination of a Navy since World War II.

And that was from Central Command Commander Admiral Brad Cooper.

This is staggering.

Yeah.

And yet, and much of the Iranian military leadership is no longer with us.

So those effects are quite significant.

We have degraded their ability to wage war massively.

But the question is, what is it going to take to bring this to an end and end?

I think the objective from the very beginning should be to collapse this regime.

I don't particularly care who runs Iran after the Ayatollah.

I just would like to see Iran led by a leader who is not a radical theocratic Islamist who wants to murder Americans and who is murdering Americans.

The reason President Trump launched this attack is because Iran has murdered nearly a thousand Americans.