Florida Senator Marco Rubio took to the Senate floor to deliver a 18-minute speech to once again out Iran’s true intentions for developing their nuclear program, and asked his colleagues to attend Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
Talks between Iran and western nations, including the U.S., have all but failed, and still the Obama administration insists on continued negotiates with this state sponsor of terrorism.Rubio said that Iran was not “governed by a normal leader,” rather by a radical Shia cleric, a Shia cleric that does not believe that he is the head of Iran, but that head of all Islam.
Here is Rubio questioning Iran’s need to develop its questionable nuclear program and its building of inter-continental missiles:
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“But don’t take my word for it. That is not the only thing that they are doing. There are two other aspects of their program that aren’t even being discussed. The first, is they continue to develop long range rockets. Why do you need inter-continental missiles? Why do you need long-range rockets? You don’t need them for conventional purposes. You don’t put a conventional warhead, you don’t spend all the time and energy and money that it takes to build that capacity to bomb someone with a conventional weapon. There’s only one reason why you build long-range rockets such as those, and that’s to put a nuclear warhead on them. That’s not being discussed in these negotiations and they continue to make unabated progress towards their long-range rocket capabilities.
“The other is a weapon design. The three things you need for a nuclear weapon program – a weapon design, the long-range rockets and the ability to enrich and reprocess. They’re already building the rockets. The weapon design you can literally buy from dozens of people around the world who will sell it to you. And the reprocessing, even under the deal the President is asking for, if it went down exactly the way the President is asking for it, they would still keep all the infrastructure, all the things that it takes to enrich, to weapons grade. They would have all the equipment, all the scientists, all of the infrastructure.”
Rubio asked members of Congress to support Netanyahu’s speech:
“You have your right to voice your concerns, but don’t do this to an ally, don’t do this to a nation that is as threatened today as it has ever been at any time in its existence. Don’t do this to a people that are in the cross hairs of multiple terrorist groups with the capability of attacking them. Don’t do this to a nation whose civilians are terrorized by thousands of rockets launched against them at a moment’s notice. Don’t do this to a country that’s facing down the threat of a nuclear weapon annihilating them off the face of the Earth. Don’t do this to a people that are being stigmatized all over the world, even as we speak, who are being oppressed. Don’t do this to a country that in forum after forum has become the subject of de-legitimatization as people argue that somehow Israel’s right to exist is not real. Don’t do this to them.”