Marco Rubio DROPPED this line then walked away from the Fake News:

“The people of Iran deserve better leadership. They slaughter their own people. By the thousands, they shoot them in the head, they slaughter them in the streets. Yeah, we don’t like that!”

“We don’t think that’s good for Iran. But our goal and our national interests in Iran is they can never have a nuclear weapon. And that’s what they were going to try to do.”

“If they have been able to hide behind, double the number of missiles, double the number of drones. That’s what they would have been in about a year, had they continued on the pace of construction.”

“Even though their economy was suffering, even though their people were suffering, that’s what they were spending their money on.”

“Even though they had sanctions. The money that was coming in, they were spending it on those things. That tells you everything you need to know about them.”

“It’s a country run by radical clerics! […] Iran is a rich country. Iran can be the RICHEST country in the Middle East if they want it to be! But instead, they take their money and they use it and they give it to Hezbollah, they give it to Hamas, they give it to the Houthis, they give it to Shia militias, they give it to sponsored terrorism all over the world, they give it to try to kill people all over the world, they build drones and missiles and pursue a nuclear weapons program.”

“THAT’S what they spent their money on. If they had spent their money on their people and on their economy, today, Iran could be probably the RICHEST country in the region if you want to know the truth.