Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed Wednesday that Iran is “probably weaker than it has ever been,” with its economy is in freefall.
“The core problem they face,” Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “unlike the protests you saw in the past on some other topics, is that they don’t have a way to address the core complaints of the protesters, which is that their economy is in collapse.
“The reason why their economy is in collapse is because they spend all their money and all their resources building weapons and sponsoring terrorist groups around the world, instead of reinvesting it back into their society — and as a result of taking on massive global sanctions, which has isolated their economy and their country.
“And so that’s what the Iranian people are demanding, is that they stop doing that and start caring about them, and get these sanctions off them, and this regime is unwilling to do it.”
