"As a U.S. Senator in 2015, Marco Rubio strongly criticized the Obama administration's nuclear agreement with Iran, predicting that sanctions relief would fund regional proxy wars, missile development, and anti access capabilities". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5dQIVh_QT4&t=7s Who would of thought Fifteen years ago the foundations of that critique were already forming amid Iran’s expanding proxy networks and ballistic missile work, a decade later the America First pairing of Rubio and Trump treated those warnings as settled facts rather than partisan talking points. Together, they framed the regime’s behavior as a predictable result of the earlier deal, which recycled cash from sanctions relief into Hezbollah, the Houthis, Shiite militias, and longer range weapons systems. Both argued that only sustained pressure aka Maximum Pressure, maximum sanctions, and a credible threat of force could reverse the trajectory and dismantle the terror supporting apparatus Obama had appeased,effectively addressing a crisis that both Rubio and Trump saw coming.
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