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Ted Cruz: “Iran was rapidly building up its short and medium term…”

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Why I Told President Trump to Attack Iran - Sen. Ted Cruz

Published | Video Starts at 32:57

And I will say one of the additional justifications the administration has used for this military conflict is that Iran was rapidly building up its short and medium term missile stockpile, building over 100 missiles a month. that they were building them up and building them up. And the administration was concerned that they would get such an overwhelming stockpile of missiles that it would be extremely expensive in terms of loss of lives to engage in military conflict with Iran. (32:57–33:06)

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Asserts that Iran was building over 100 missiles a month to increase its missile stockpile.

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