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Marco Rubio: “As a result of taking on massive global sanctions, [Iran]…”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Testifies on Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 58:22

And the reason why there's economies in collapse is because they spend all their money and all their resources building weapons and sponsoring terrorist groups around the world instead of reinvesting it back into their society and As a result of taking on massive global sanctions, [Iran] has isolated their economy and their country. And so that's what the Iranian people are demanding, is that they stop doing that and start caring about them and get these sanctions off them. (58:22–58:27)

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Asserts that global sanctions have isolated Iran's economy and country.

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