**US Senator Ted Cruz has called on the Trump administration to arm anti-government protesters in Iran, including the Kurds, and let them overthrow t**he Iranian government without deploying American ground forces.

Speaking on NBC’s _Meet the Press_, Cruz said Washington’s initial objective of degrading Iran’s military capacity had been achieved, but argued that the longer-term “Objective B” should be “regime collapse.”


> “Arm the protesters ... arm the Kurds, and let the protesters remove this regime from power,” he said.


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