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Marco Rubio: “It was not an attack on Iran. It was not an attack on the…”

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

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Marco Rubio Discusses US-Iran Tensions and Operation Midnight Hammer

Published | Video Starts at 03:39

And they found out that's not the case. So this mission was a very precise mission. It had three objectives, three nuclear sites. It was not an attack on Iran. It was not an attack on the Iranian people. This wasn't a regime change move. This was designed to degrade and or destroy three nuclear sites related to their nuclear weaponization ambitions. And that was delivered on yesterday. What happens next will now depend on what Iran chooses to do next. (03:39–03:45)

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Asserts that the U.S. mission was not intended as an attack on Iran or its people, nor as a regime change effort.

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