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Marco Rubio: “In Natanz... the United States went in with two additional…”

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In Natanz, which is also an underground facility that had already been destroyed, basically the Israelis had put a lot of damage on it. And then In Natanz... the United States went in with two additional heavy munitions that penetrated into the ground and did more damage. So it was already in bad shape and unusable. And now it's worse off the hard one, the one that Was really difficult is Fordeaux because it's buried underneath a mountain at about 2 to 300 meters underground. (04:06–04:19)

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Asserts that the U.S. inflicted additional damage on Natanz with heavy munitions.

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