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Marco Rubio: “It was in our national interest not to have Iran have a…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 07:53

That's a great example of the limited and strategic and focused use of American power to achieve something that's in our national interest. It was in our national interest not to have Iran have a nuclear program that can be turned into a weapons program. that could one day threaten the United States. And the President found an opportunity to do something about it, and he did it. (07:53–07:59)

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Asserts that it is in the U.S. national interest to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapons program.

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