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Marco Rubio Discusses U.S. Actions on Iranian Nuclear Sites and NATO Summit Outcomes

Published June 25, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:44

And a lot of us wish didn't exist. The United States job is not to go around and set up governments for every country. The United States job is to protect our national security. Our national security issue with Iran is with a clerical regime that wants nuclear weapons so they can threaten us, threaten Israel today, threaten us tomorrow. And the President's made clear that's not going to happen. That's what he's focused on. (07:44–07:56)

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Asserts that Iran's clerical regime wants nuclear weapons to threaten the U.S. and Israel.

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