In speech, Rubio slams Obama's outreach to Iran and Cuba
NEW YORK (AP) Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is slamming President Barack Obama's outreach to Iran and Cuba, calling his diplomacy with the two nations evidence of "every flawed strategic, moral and economic notion" that has driven his foreign policy.
In a speech Friday to the conservative-leaning Foreign Policy Initiative in New York, set for delivery the same day Secretary of State John Kerry re-opens the U.S. embassy in Havana, the Florida senator will say that Obama has made no efforts "to stand on the side of freedom."
"He has been quick to deal with the oppressors, but slow to deal with the oppressed," Rubio says in excerpts of prepared remarks released by his campaign.
A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the top-tier candidates in a crowded Republican field for president, the Cuban-American lawmaker has made foreign policy a centerpiece of his campaign.
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