Marco Rubio
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
We're prepared, right now, if they call right now and say, 'We want to meet, let's talk about this,' we're prepared to do that.
That would be a suicidal move on their part, because I think the whole world would come against them if they did that.
We achieved our objectives. We had three objectives yesterday, Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. We conducted a brilliant military operation under the command of President Trump.
Yes, well, we will see what Iran decides to do. I think they should choose the route of peace.
It would be, I think, a massive escalation that would merit a response, not just by us, but from others.
If Iran was not a threat to the region, if the Iranian regime – because let me be clear, I'm talking about the Iranian people. If the regime was not a threat to the region, we wouldn't have to have any of these bases.
I encourage the Chinese government in Beijing to call them about that, because they heavily depend on the Straits of Hormuz for their oil.
We have intelligence that they have everything they need to build a nuclear weapon.
This wasn’t a regime-change move. This was designed to degrade and/or destroy three nuclear sites related to their nuclear weaponization ambitions.





