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Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the case powerfully regarding why now, and not a year from now or some other time in the future, was the best time to strike Iran.

His Tuesday comments to reporters on Capitol Hill came after Democrats, like Senate Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Mark Warner, pushed the talking point that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States.

“Let me explain to you guys this in simple English, OK? Iran is run by lunatics – religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism that the world will not be able to touch them for fear of those things,” Rubio said.

“And this is the weakest they’ve ever been. Now was the time to go after them. The President made the decision to go after them, take away their missiles, take away their navy, take away their drones, take away their ability to make those things, so that they can never have a nuclear weapon,” he continued.

“That’s why the President made this decision. It was the right decision, and the world will be a safer place when these radical clerics no longer have access to these weapons. You see how they’re using them now. Imagine how they would use them a year from now if they had more of these,” the secretary of state argued.

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