Marco Rubio: “This country [Iran] is run by radical Shia clerics.”

“I don't know of any country in the world where there's a bigger difference between the people and the people who run the country, okay? This country [Iran] is run by radical Shia clerics. And that's not what Iran and the Iranian people are. Now, they may be Shia, but they're not radicals and they're not clerics. And they just want a normal life and a regular life.” (43:42–46:20)

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