Marco Rubio

Yes, well, we will see what Iran decides to do. I think they should choose the route of peace.

We'll defend our people, obviously. We'll defend our people. Well, they'll attack our bases. And those are our bases, and we're going to defend our personnel.

We have been – we have done everything. We have bent over backwards, OK, to create a deal with these people.

It would be, I think, a massive escalation that would merit a response, not just by us, but from others.

It would hurt other countries' economies a lot worse than ours.

I encourage the Chinese government in Beijing to call them about that, because they heavily depend on the Straits of Hormuz for their oil.

Calling the move 'economic suicide' for Iran.

It will have a lot more impact on the rest of the world.

It will have some impact on us.

Let’s meet directly.

We have intelligence that they have everything they need to build a nuclear weapon.

Forget about intelligence. What the IAEA knows [is] they are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program.

It doesn't matter whether the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons.

We can fly in and out of Iran at will.

That would be a suicidal move on their part, because I think the whole world would come against them if they did that.

We today have a president who does what he says he's going to do.

The President retains the opportunity to pull out of this at any moment.

Our preference for solving that problem, that very specific problem, is through diplomacy.

They're not going to get anywhere near that capability.

We want a diplomatic and peaceful solution.

Those bases are there because those countries are petrified that the Iranian Shia clerics that run that country will attack their country.

If they choose another route, then there will be consequences for that.

We're prepared to do that. The President's made that clear from the very beginning.

Then they're going to have a problem, and I'm not going to broadcast what those problems are.

So we'll defend our people, obviously.