Marco Rubio

troops to be in the region.

They'll also work with other terrorist groups in the region to target American servicemen and women.

And they may or may not deny that they're involved, but they will target us and raise the price of our presence in the Middle East until they hope to completely pull us out of that region.

They'll also continue to build long-range missiles, missiles capable of reaching the United States.

Those are not affected by this deal.

And they'll continue to build them as they've been doing.

And then at some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon.

And they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program because the price of doing so will be too high.

Iran is led by a supreme leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future.

He is not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions on the basis of borders or simply history, or because of ambitions.

He has a religious apocalyptic vision of the future, one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non-Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels especially obligated to trigger.

And he's going to possess nuclear weapons?

This is the world that we are on the verge of leaving our children to inherit, and perhaps we ourselves will have to share in it.

And so I want to be recorded for history's purposes, if nothing else, to say that those of us who opposed this deal understood where it would lead.

And we are making a terrible mistake.

But here's the good news.

Iran may have a supreme leader, but America does not.

In this nation, we have a republic.

And soon we will have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber, but also in the executive branch.

And I pray that on their first day in office, they will reverse this deal and reimpose the sanctions and back them up with a credible threat of military force.