US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that further US military action against Iran is unneeded because the economic suffering the US is inflicting on a weakening Islamic Republic is so enormous. Rubio’s remark, delivered during a lecture to the Federalist Society, echoed a statement earlier in the week by U.S. President Donald Trump that the fight “militarily is effectively over.”
Frankly, the economic hardship we are inflicting on that regime right now is so enormous that there is no need for military action because we have weakened them so much,” Rubio said. But I think victory is making sure they never acquire a nuclear weapon.
Rubio also recognised the economic damage Americans have felt because of the war, which has pushed up petrol prices and touched practically every part of the world economy. Trump could have ignored the threat from Iran’s nuclear program, avoided an unpopular conflict and “leave it for the next person to worry about,” he said. He added that the president determined he “was not going to leave it unaddressed.” But it’s hard,” Rubio said. It’s not easy and it’s tough. And it hurts, you know, economic anguish and otherwise. So we acknowledge that.
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