Ted Cruz

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.

That is the same distance from Iran that Paris and London are, which means they had missiles far enough to get to the capital cities in Europe.

They were building over 100 missiles a month.

They were also building vast numbers of drones.

And their plan was to have so many missiles and so many drones that it would become prohibitively costly to go in and take out their next nuclear weapons research facility.

They wanted enough missiles and drones that if we came in and took out

Phase two of the nuclear weapons research facility, they could inflict massive casualties on their neighbors.

And look what they did when when this conflict started.

They fired missiles at everybody, not just at Israel, at every one of their neighbors.

And and so the Trump administration made the determination they needed to act now before they had so many missiles and so many drones that there would be a massive loss of life if we acted subsequently to take out nuclear weapons research facilities.

That's number one.

Number two, the Iranian regime is weaker right now than it has been at any time during our lifetime.