Marco Rubio: “They claim to have a space program. It's not a space…”

“We're certain they have a weapons design. They have mid range missiles, they have short range missiles that they could put warheads on. And they're, and by the way, They claim to have a space program. It's not a space program. Iran's not going to the moon. They have a space program because they're trying to develop ICBMs, long range rockets that could one day reach the United States the way North Korea can already reach the United states with their ICBMs.” (16:16–16:21)

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