Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I te Pipiri 2017, i te ra i muri mai o te whakaeke a ISIL i Tehran
, i roto i te House Foreign Affairs Committee whakarongo, ka mea a Rohrabacher: "Ehara i te mea pai mo tatou ki te whai i te United States hopea tautoko Sunnis nei ka whakaeke Hezbollah me te whakawehi Shiite ki a tatou, e kore e te mea pai?" I kaha whakahētia tēnei kōrero e te National Iranian American Council, nāna i tuhituhi, "He roa te hītori o ngā kōrero pōhēhē me te whakahē i a Rohrabacher mō Iran, engari ko tōna pōhēhē ki ngā patunga Iranian o te whakamataku ISIS tērā pea ko tōna tino pōhēhē me te tino hōhonu i tēnei wā".