Rubio: Iran Tried To Play Trump, Like They’ve Played Every American President For 35 Years
Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that the U.S. is not “at war” with Iran during an appearance Sunday morning with FNC’s Maria Bartiromo.
MARIA BARTIROMO: Are we now at war with Iran? SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: No, we’re not. This is not a war against Iran. This is very simple. You know, 67 days ago, the President of the United States sent the Iranians a letter and it said, “You’re not going to have nuclear weapons. You’re not going to have a militarized nuclear program. Let’s negotiate. I want to do this diplomatically. I want to do this peacefully.” They tried to play him along, the way they’ve played every American president for the last 35 years. And you know the president told them, “If we don’t get a deal,”-which is what he wanted-“then I’ll have to handle it differently,” and that’s what he did last night. He handled it differently, but that was an Iranian choice. We didn’t make that choice. They did. By playing games with Donald Trump, they made a huge mistake, and President Trump acted last night, and I think the world today is safer and more stable than it was 24 hours ago. And a bunch of these countries putting out statements condemning us-privately, they all agree with us that this needed to be done. They got to do what they got to do for their own public relations purposes, but the only people in the world that are unhappy about what happened in Iran last night is the regime.
