GOP Rep. Fallon: ‘Don’t See Any Other Way’ than Boots on Ground in Iran

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) said that he thinks there will be “American special operators on the ground” in Iran and “I don’t think this is going to end like Venezuela, where you just have a new leader that wants to be at least cooperative with the United States.”

Fallon said, [relevant remarks begin around 1:45] “[A]s far as the mullahs and what’s left of the Iranian regime, can you trust them? Absolutely not. It’s got to be a President Reagan trust but verify. I don’t think this is going to end like Venezuela, where you just have a new leader that wants to be at least cooperative with the United States. That would be great, but this is — they’re dedicated theocrats that — they were willing, just recently, to kill 32,000 of their own citizens…just to stay in