Marco Rubio Fires Back at Booker, Says Iran Is the One Begging (Video)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio refutes Sen. Cory Booker’s argument effectively during a heated exchange: “No one’s ‘begging’ for anything here. The Iranians might be begging because their economy is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day.”

Why is Booker betting against America when he should be fighting for its future?

“No one’s begging for anything here. The Iranians might be begging because their economy’s losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day. Understand, Iran had street protests going on before all of this started.”

All of those factors, economic factors in Iran, are far worse today than they were six months ago when those protests were happening. They have hyperinflation. Their currency’s completely devalued.

They’re struggling to make payroll for their government workers. Iran is in a very serious situation, and if it was up to the political class there, and I understand everybody there is sort of radical in some way, but if it was up to the people that actually, like, go to elections and wear the suits and you see on TV, they’d probably make a deal tomorrow. The issue they’re facing is that the supreme leader and the IRGC core are a little bit more immune from those pressures until they can be convinced otherwise, and I think that’s the direction that they’re moving in, because the reality, I don’t know where you’re getting this perception that Iran is stronger.

Iran has no navy left. They’ve lost a substantial percentage of their defense industrial base. Iran has lost a substantial percentage of their missile launchers, and their economy is far worse today, and I mean far worse today, than it was six to nine months ago, and they are looking at hundreds of billions of dollars of reconstruction costs just to get to where they were six months ago.”