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Marco Rubio: “Iran has spent the better part of 20 years not just…”

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Marco Rubio faces questions on Iran and Ukraine at Southeast Asia summit

Published | Video Starts at 01:21

Nothing that Iran is doing, nothing that anyone's doing to help Iran is in any way increasing their ability to target Americans. What you need to all understand, because we've explained this repeatedly, is Iran has spent the better part of 20 years not just sponsoring terrorism, but building long range rockets, short range missiles and drones. And they were intending to build them a lot more. They were intending to double their stockpile. (01:21–01:29)

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Asserts Iran's long-term investment in military capabilities, including rockets, missiles, and drones.

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