Rubio says that we are ready to meet with Iran after attacks, warns the hormuz closing strait

Washington – The United States is ready to meet Iran after the American bombardment of three Iranian nuclear sites, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday, while warning Iran that closing the hormuz crucial narrow would be a “suicidal” movement for the regime.

Rubio, appearing in “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan”, urged Iran to look for diplomacy after the United States took place What the Pentagon called The largest B-2 operation in the history of the United States in an effort to paralyze Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon. Rubio said that the United States has no current plans for more attacks against Iran unless they “fall.”

Rubio said the American mission “was not an attack against Iran, it was not an attack against the Iranian people. This was not a regime change movement. This was designed to degrade and destroy three nuclear sites.”

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“What happens later will depend on what they will choose to do next,” Rubio said. “If they choose the path of diplomacy, we are ready. We can make a deal that is good for them, the Iranian people and good for the world. If they choose another route, then there will be consequences for that.”

President Trump continues to prefer the path of diplomacy, said Rubio, and said that the United States pushed Iran to make an agreement to renounce its ambitions of nuclear weapons before the strikes.

“We are prepared, at this time, if they call right now and say: ‘We want to gather, let’s talk about this,’ we are prepared to do it,” said Rubio.

The question of how Iran will have generated fears that the regime can try to prevent ships from traveling through the Hormuz Strait, a critical strangulation point between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman that is used to transport around 20% of the oil used throughout the world.

Rubio refused to say if the United States would take military measures if Iran closes the Strait, or if the United States would consider attacks against oil facilities for the militias of Iran’s power as direct acts by the regime: “I will not remove the president’s options, that is not something we are talking about at this time in terms of being immediate.”

Rubio said that closing the Strait would affect the United States, but would have “much more impact on the rest of the world,” particularly in China.

“That would be a suicidal movement about [Iran’s] Part, because I think everyone would come against them if they did that, “said Rubio.

The retired general Frank McKenzie, the former head of the United States Central Command and News themezone collaborator, said that the United States could clear the Strait if Iran will align it with underwater mines.

“The Iranians have the ability to extract the hormuz narrow. We have very good plans to clarify that if we had to do it. We work in those plans all the time,” McKenzie told Brennan later in the program. “It would be a coup for world trade, for a period of time, but in the end, the Strait would clear, and I am quite sure that the Iranian Navy would sink at the end of that operation.”

USA. operation On Saturday, which the Trump administration called “Operation Midnight Hammer,” bombarded three nuclear sites in Iran, causing what the president of the Joint personnel said was “extremely severe damage and destruction.” The Pentagon acknowledged that capturing a complete evaluation of the effectiveness of the operation will take time.

Brennan pressed to Rubio on which specific intelligence he pushed the president to make the decision to attack Iran. In March, the director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declared before the Congress that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, testimony Mr. Trump declared “mistaken.” Rubio said that Iran, before the strikes, had “everything they need to build nuclear weapons,” and pointed out the evaluations of the International Atomic Energy Agency, or OIEA.

“This is what everyone knows. Forget about intelligence,” Rubio told Brennan. “What Oiea knows, are enriching uranium far beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program. So why would the uranium enriched at 60% if you do not intend to use it to take it to 90 and build a weapon? Why is ICBM developing?”

Brennan asked Rubio if the United States will defend other nations in the Middle East if they will launch attacks on their ground in response. Rubio said that that is why the US bases, and around 40,000 American troops are placed in the Middle East.

“Well, that’s exactly why they are there,” he said, and added, “all those bases are there because they fear that they will go.”

Rubio insisted that the United States will defend Americans, including American soldiers in military bases, Iran and their representatives.

“They will attack us, it is what they threaten to do,” he said. “So we will defend our people, obviously. We will defend our people. Well, they will attack our bases. And those are our bases, and we will defend our staff, and we are prepared to do so.”

Rubio said he did not want to predict what the United States could do if I will take reprisals.

“There are no military operations scheduled at this time against Iran unless they fall and attacked Americans or US interests, then they will have a problem,” he said. “Then they will have a problem, and I will not transmit what those problems are.”