Ted Cruz: “Iran was also rapidly developing short range and mid range…”

“And mind you, those are not empty words. They are following through year after year after year, paying terrorists and killing Americans. There is no good faith negotiation. And President Trump understood that Iran was also rapidly developing short range and mid range ballistic missiles. They were doing that to massively increase the cost of the President coming in later to take out nuclear weapons capacity. If you look at the first day of this conflict, Iran launched 350 ballistic missiles.” (04:02–04:08)

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