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Ted Cruz: “Iran was building over 100 missiles a month.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 09:57

That is the same distance from Iran that Paris and London are, which meant they had missiles far enough to get to the capital cities in Europe. They were Iran was building over 100 missiles a month. They were also building vast numbers of drones. And their plan was to have so many missiles and so many drones that it would become prohibitively costly to go in and take out their next nuclear weapons research facility. (09:57–10:01)

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Asserts that Iran was producing over 100 missiles monthly.

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