SECRETARY RUBIO: The President's preference in any challenge around the world is to try to solve it diplomatically and…
SECRETARY RUBIO: The President's preference in any challenge around the world is to try to solve it diplomatically and peacefully, if possible.
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Well, I mean, the message is simple. Iran is blowing up ships, including ships that have, for example, Indian sailors on them, including ships that have energy that's destined for countries represented at that table. We live in a world in which a country is openly, you know, a regime is openly saying we will blow up commercial ships. Think about that, okay? Think about the world we now live in. It sounds like something from 100 years ago or 80 years ago. That's what's happening, and every country there is challenged. As far as the talks are concerned, I don't know if there's a time frame that's up to the president to make decisions. with regards to those sorts of things. There are multiple talks. Talks have actually never stopped. There's been active conversations going both in some cases directly but often through intermediaries. And the president's preference in any challenge around the world is to try to solve it diplomatically and peacefully if possible. He recognizes there are some issues in the world that cannot be solved peacefully, unfortunately, sadly. But we would prefer to solve it in that manner. So I'm not going to characterize neither the progress on those talks nor any time frame So I'm not going to characterize neither the progress on those talks nor... on it, other than to tell you that if there is a diplomatic solution, we would be open to it. But obviously it can't be one that endangers our national security or one that doesn't meet our core concerns that we have that brought us into that in the first place. And that is primarily that Iran not simply not only has shown that they clearly have ambitions to be a nuclear weapons power, and that can never be allowed to happen. But this is also a country and a regime that's at the center of all the instability in the Middle East. In Lebanon, there's instability in the Middle East. In Lebanon, there's instability because they support Hezbollah. In Saudi Arabia, under attack because Iran supports the Houthis. In Iraq, there's a country that's feeling challenged because Iranian -backed militias are challenging the state there. So anywhere you turn, what you find is some Iranian proxy that's undermining the peace and stability of the Middle East. That's a fundamental threat that we have to confront, on top of the fact that they want nuclear weapons. This is a regime that's massacred its own people. You can only imagine what it would do to others if they possess weapons of mass destruction, which will never be allowed to happen as long as President Trump is in the White House. if they possess weapons of mass destruction, which will never be allowed to happen.
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“Iran is blowing up ships, including ships that have, for example, Indian sailors on them, including ships that have energy that's destined for countries represented at that table.” (in the post's video)
“a regime is openly saying we will blow up commercial ships” (in the post's video)
“Talks have actually never stopped. There's been active conversations going both in some cases directly but often through intermediaries.” (in the post's video)
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SECRETARY RUBIO: The President's preference in any challenge around the world is to try to solve it diplomatically and peacefully, if possible.
Well, I mean, the message is simple. Iran is blowing up ships, including ships that have, for example, Indian sailors on them, including ships that have energy that's destined for countries represented at that table. We live in a world in which a country is openly, you know, a regime is openly saying we will blow up commercial ships. Think about that, okay? Think about the world we now live in. It sounds like something from 100 years ago or 80 years ago. That's what's happening, and every country there is challenged. As far as the talks are concerned, I don't know if there's a time frame that's up to the president to make decisions. with regards to those sorts of things. There are multiple talks. Talks have actually never stopped. There's been active conversations going both in some cases directly but often through intermediaries. And the president's preference in any challenge around the world is to try to solve it diplomatically and peacefully if possible. He recognizes there are some issues in the world that cannot be solved peacefully, unfortunately, sadly. But we would prefer to solve it in that manner. So I'm not going to characterize neither the progress on those talks nor any time frame So I'm not going to characterize neither the progress on those talks nor... on it, other than to tell you that if there is a diplomatic solution, we would be open to it. But obviously it can't be one that endangers our national security or one that doesn't meet our core concerns that we have that brought us into that in the first place. And that is primarily that Iran not simply not only has shown that they clearly have ambitions to be a nuclear weapons power, and that can never be allowed to happen. But this is also a country and a regime that's at the center of all the instability in the Middle East. In Lebanon, there's instability in the Middle East. In Lebanon, there's instability because they support Hezbollah. In Saudi Arabia, under attack because Iran supports the Houthis. In Iraq, there's a country that's feeling challenged because Iranian -backed militias are challenging the state there. So anywhere you turn, what you find is some Iranian proxy that's undermining the peace and stability of the Middle East. That's a fundamental threat that we have to confront, on top of the fact that they want nuclear weapons. This is a regime that's massacred its own people. You can only imagine what it would do to others if they possess weapons of mass destruction, which will never be allowed to happen as long as President Trump is in the White House. if they possess weapons of mass destruction, which will never be allowed to happen.
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