WATCH: Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) ENDS ABC's George Stephanopoulos for platforming the Iranian FM and mostly allowing him to spew propaganda GERGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And we are back now with Republican senator James Lankford of Oklahoma. Senator, thank you for joining us this morning you just heard the Iranian foreign minister. He said this attack was unprovoked. How do you respond? JAMES LANKFORD: Yeah, I would hope that Iranian TV is carrying Marco Rubio today, the same as you all just carried the Iranian foreign minister today. We certainly have been provoked on this. this. Just a year ago, we had over 180 attacks from Iran on Americans, either through their proxies or directly from Iran. They continue to be able to fund the attack of ships off the coast of Yemen. Obviously, there are they're funding Hezbollah, the Shia militants. They have continued to be able to attack us now for decades, and that is accelerated. So just because we have blocked their attacks doesn't mean they're not attacking us. So this becomes the situation where you're shooting at a police officer and telling him you can't fire back unless they hit you. We've continued to be able to block them, find ways to be able to prevent their attacks but they have certainly been attacking us. We ended their nuclear program and they said, we're going to start all over again because they are determined to have a nuclear weapon. And so this is the moment to be able to say, you're going to stop attacking American citizens and you're not going to have a nuclear weapon.