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Iran Has Posed a Very Grave Threat to the U.S. for a Long Time
(U.S. State Department) Secretary of State Marco Rubio - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday: "Everyone should know that Iran poses a very grave threat to the United States and has for a very long time. First and foremost, after their nuclear program was obliterated, they were told not to try to restart it, and here they are. You can see them always trying to rebuild elements of it. They're not enriching right now, but they're trying to get to the point where they ultimately can." "Iran possesses a very large number of ballistic missiles, particularly short-range ballistic missiles that threaten the United States and our bases in the...UAE, in Qatar, in Bahrain. And they also possess naval assets that threaten shipping and try to threaten the U.S. Navy." "So I want everybody to understand that, and beyond just the nuclear program they possess these conventional weapons that are solely designed to attack America and attack Americans." "Iran refuses to talk about ballistic missiles...that's a big problem. You've seen them increasing the range of the missiles they have now, and clearly they are headed in the pathway to one day being able to develop weapons that could reach the continental U.S." "The ranges continue to grow every single year exponentially.... Eventually, we'll have to have conversations about more than just the nuclear program; but if you can't even make progress on the nuclear program, it's going to be hard to make progress on the ballistic missiles as well."