Ted Cruz

Number one, as President Trump mentioned just a minute ago, and as he said for 11 years, we cannot allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.

That when the Ayatollah chanted, death to America, we have every reason to believe him.

The Iranian regime has killed nearly a thousand Americans.

They have been the number one state funder of terrorism worldwide.

If they had a nuclear weapon, the odds are unacceptably high they would use it.

Now,

A month ago, they were not on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.

Last year, during the 12-day war, President Trump ordered our B-2 bombers to fly halfway around the world and we dropped bunker busters on their nuclear weapons research facilities, particularly Fordow, which Fordow is a secret research bunker.

It was built under a mountain and it was built to withstand bombing attacks because Israel did not have bombs big enough to take out Fordow.

No other country on Earth had bombs big enough to do that except for the United States.

We're the only ones that had the bunker busters big enough to take it out.

The ordnance we dropped on their nuclear research facilities last year were the equivalent of one third of a nuclear weapon.

We're talking big, big bombs.

And we took out their nuclear weapons facilities.

So...

A month ago, they were not on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons facilities or nuclear weapons, rather.

Why did President Trump act?

Because Iran was building missiles, short range and medium range ballistic missiles at an incredibly rapid clip, over 100 missiles a month they were building.

Well, we also know now that they had missiles that were sufficient that they could go all the way from Iran to Diego Garcia, because during this war they fired a missile at Diego Garcia, which is a British American military base in the Chagos Islands in the middle of the Indian Oceans.

That's a couple thousand miles away.