CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp and former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., told Newsmax on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is “clear-eyed” in his understanding of Iran and what must be done to clean up the mess that former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden left behind.

“I think when it comes to this question of Iran, I think anybody who believes that civilization is at stake as we deal with China and as we deal with radical Islamic terrorism, knows that Iran simply cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Schlapp said on “The Chris Salcedo Show.”

“This is a line in the sand that Donald Trump has drawn. Joe Biden and Barack Obama did everything they could to try to appease the dictators, the mullahs, in Iran and to devastating consequences.

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