Textbook definition of taking something out of context. The full sentence is:

> ‘If America attacks Iran,’ I said, ‘won’t people be killed?’

> ‘They don’t kill people. Our own government does. No enemy in our history has done to us what these clerics have done.’

You intentionally cut the sentence short, they phrased it that way for emphasis. Here is the full quote for less reactionary audiences:

‘They don’t kill people. Our own government does. No enemy in our history has done to us what these clerics have done.’