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Viral Marco Rubio flashback proves he’s the man for the mission today

March 6, 2026 | | Print Article

Secretary of State Marco Rubio nailed it back in 2015 when it came to an ill-conceived deal with Iran being orchestrated by President Barack Obama.

Speaking from the floor of the U.S. Senate, as a Republican senator from Florida, Rubio called Obama’s Iran nuclear deal a “terrible mistake,” and outlined precisely what the world has seen since.

“Everything that needs to be said about the details of this deal has already been said. I do want to be recorded, for history’s purposes, for I know what is going to happen, with regard to this, if it goes through,” Rubio said.

Referencing the $1.7 billion in cash that Obama gifted to the mullahs, Rubio said Iran “will immediately use the money it’s receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities.”

“It will establish the most dominant military power in the region aside from the United States, and it will raise the cost of us operating in the region,” Rubio said. “They’re going to build rockets capable of destroying our aircraft carriers and ships, continue to build these swift boats that are able to come on us, these fast boats that are able to swarm.”

“And they’ll make it harder and harder for US troops to be in the region,” he continued. “They’ll also work with other terrorist groups in the region to target US 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 pull us out of that region.”

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Over the years, these predictions played out just as Rubio predicted.

“They’ll also continue to build long-range missiles, missiles capable of reaching the United States. Those are not affected by this deal,” he explained. “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 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.

Describing the now deceased Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as “a radical cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future,” Rubio stressed that the supreme leader “is not a traditional geopolitical actor.”

“He has a religious, apocalyptic vision of the future, one that calls for triggering a conflict between the Muslim and non-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,” he said.

“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.”

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Turns out, President Trump very well could be correct in declaring that Marco Rubio just may be the best secretary of state America has ever had.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

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