Sen. Tom Cotton knows a coward when he sees one. On Wednesday, upon hearing that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif disparaged him by name in public remarks in New York, Sen. Cotton challenged the Iranian to a debate. The Hill reports Cotton then added, on Twitter, that Zarif was unlikely to accept because of his “cowardly character” shown when he hid during the Iran-Iraq war.

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