Marco Rubio: “These forces have already destroyed seven Iranian fast…”

“The assets supporting this project, by the way, include guided missile destroyers, over 100 land and sea based aircraft, multi domain unmanned platforms, and 15,000 of the finest military service members on the planet. These forces have already destroyed seven Iranian fast boats. Iranian fast boats that fail to heed our warnings. And by fast boats, we're talking about, you know, some of these things look like Boston Whalers.” (17:24–17:30)

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