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"I've said before that the Iranian government has engaged in systematic repression of its own people, even killing thousands of Iranians who were seeking to express the most basic forms of dissent earlier this year. It is a brutal government."
Maybe you posted the wrong video, but he clearly didn't say that killing security officers and burning down mosques are basic forms of dissent.
You don't understand, a country which has a "morality police" who routinely execute women for not following religious law is actually good because America is bad.
What happened in Iran then?