Ted Cruz: Iran deal will kill ‘countless’ Americans and Israelis

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz predicts the murder of “countless” Americans and Israelis should the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran go through, a graphic warning expected to be echoed by GOP front-runner Donald Trump at a Capitol Hill rally.

Those Democrats who support the deal, Cruz says, “should pray and think very carefully about how they will answer the questions that come from the mother or father or son or daughter of the countless Americans and Europeans and Israelis that will be murdered by Hamas, by Hezbollah, by the Houthis, with the billions of dollars this administration is sending them.

“If you are directly responsible for sending billions of dollars to jihadists who use those billions to murder Americans, you can’t wash your hands of that blood,” the first-term Texas senator tells reporters in the Capitol shortly before the rally begins.

— AP