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Rubio: Iran Aimed to Become the Next North Korea
(U.S. State Department) Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News on Tuesday: "I know this sounds fantastical, but it is absolutely true. This is a regime led by people who believe that it is their calling and their purpose in life to usher in the end of the world. These people want nuclear weapons." "Why do we know that? Because they are assembling all the things you need for nuclear weapons. They're assembling long-range rockets that can eventually reach the United States, can already reach Europe. We saw them demonstrate two of them last week despite denying that they had them." "They were aiming to become the next North Korea...an Iran run by radical Shia clerics with intercontinental missiles that could reach the mainland of the United States eventually. That's what they were going towards. That's what they would have ultimately achieved had President Trump not taken these steps that he's taken." "So for all these people out there talking about how this could have been avoided, they were given every opportunity in multiple talks, and all they did is either reject or delay. And that's not going to happen under President Trump. He is not going to allow Iran to become a nuclear power on his watch." "This is the weakest Iran certainly has been in 25 years, right now. Look at the damage they have been able to inflict on their neighbors at their weakest point. Imagine two years from now when they had had the opportunity to double the number of missiles they had, to double the number of drones they had....The President was not going to allow that to happen."