claim: says chuck hagel’s nomination as defense secretary "has been publicly celebrated by the iranian government."
author: ted cruz
evidence_1: feb 1, 2013 ... today, he says hezbollah is, in fact, a terrorist organization. continue ... and the  principal job of the defense secretary is to help provide a credible threat to deter  those who would seek to harm u.s. national security. hagel's nomination has  been publicly celebrated by the iranian government — surely an ...
evidence_2: feb 26, 2013 ... cruz said hagel's nomination "has been publicly celebrated by the iranian  government." an iranian foreign ministry spokesman, ... "secretary of defense  chuck hagel?" asks a disgusted sounding narrator in an ... the ad next said  hagel opposes military action against iran.we found that he repeatedly has ...
evidence_3: feb 20, 2013 ... complaints about chuck hagel grow more cartoonish by the day. ... have been  thrown at secretary of defense nominee chuck hagel over the past few months  ... to see a foreign nation like iran publicly celebrating a nomination. ... senior  iranian government figures have also said similar things when asked ...
evidence_4: feb 15, 2013 ... ... favorite grilled defense secretary nominee chuck hagel this week, ... is the  government of iran formally and publicly praising the nomination of a defense  secretary. ... to see a foreign nation like iran publicly celebrating a nomination.” ...  cruz took another recent jab at hagel, saying he may have received ...
evidence_5: apr 19, 2013 ... the young senator from texas has been on the job for about 100 ... that chuck  hagel, now the defense secretary, may have been on the ... cruz also wrote in  politico that “hagel's nomination has been publicly celebrated by the iranian ...  cruz said such a plan would make “a chump” of legal immigrants.