🔸 Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, says that the economic pressures on the Islamic Republic are so severe that Washington sees no need for new military action in the current situation, but the main goal of the US is still to permanently prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
On Friday, November 13, at the annual meeting of the "Federalist Association" in Washington, Mr. Rubio said that the criterion for the victory of the United States in the war with Iran is that the Islamic Republic "will never have a nuclear weapon", either because of a lack of financial resources or because of the denial of the necessary equipment.
🔸 He described the leaders of the Islamic Republic as "extreme Shiite clerics" with a "developmental mentality" and said, unlike the North Korean government, which seeks mainly to maintain its own survival, the Islamic Republic sought to expand infiltration and export the revolution to other countries. Referring to the suppression of intercepts in Iran, Rubio said that the government of the Republic of Salami "killed tens of thousands of its own people" and added that a government that treated its citizens this way would be a much greater threat if it obtained nuclear weapons.