Marco Rubio

Obviously, they have to go do it.

We're going to test that proposition very strongly because we always prefer to settle things through negotiation and diplomacy.

But we also have to be prepared for the fact that that effort might fail.

Here they are.

You should write them down.

Number one, the destruction of their Air Force.

Number two, the destruction of their Navy.

Number three, the severe diminishing of their missile launching capability.

And number four, the destruction of their factory so they can't make more missiles and more drones to threaten us in the future.

All of this so that they can never hide behind it to acquire a nuclear weapon.

Well, first of all, it's important to remember the objectives of this operation from the very beginning.

We are destroying Iran's navy.

We are destroying their ability, their missile launchers by a significant percentage.

We're going to wipe out their defense industrial base, meaning their ability to make new missiles and new drones in the future because it posed a great threat to the region.

This Iran that you're seeing now, this is Iran at its weakest point.

Imagine them two years from now if they had thousands of more missiles, thousands of more missile launchers and factories to make even more.

That was an unacceptable risk.

It needed to be addressed and President Trump is addressing it.

Now, they are making threats about controlling the Hormuz Straits in perpetuity, creating a tolling system and the like.

That's not going to be allowed to happen.