By EFE
Marco Rubio defended the naval blockade that the Central Command has maintained for more than 15 days against Iran’s ports, amid uncertainty about the future of peace negotiations with Tehran.
“The blockade is not a blockade against maritime transport, it is a blockade against Iranian transport.” Rubio said during an exclusive interview with Fox News.
“It cannot be that they (Iran) are the only beneficiaries of an illegal, illicit and unjustified system of tolling and management in the Strait of Hormuz,” Rubio added, when he was justified about the United States strategy of keeping the ports of the Islamic Republic blocked.
Rubio’s comments come after the second round of negotiations between Washington and Tehran in Pakistan suspended because Iran’s representatives decided to withdraw from Islamabad before the American delegation traveled there last weekend.
The naval blockade that Rubio defended was imposed by Trump since the beginning of April despite agreeing to a halt on indefinite fire and the measure has been rejected by the Iranian legislature and executive, considering that not allowing the entry and exit of its merchant ships is a military attack.
This Monday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Iran is “humiliating” the United States with his attitude in the negotiations to confront the nine-week conflict in the Middle East.
“I don’t see a clear strategy. In a conflict you not only have to enter, but you have to enter and you have to know how to get out. We saw what happens when this is not taken into account in Afghanistan, in Iraq and now in Iran,” he said during an event at a school.
The president Donald Trump has stopped commenting on the war in Iranas he usually does in public appearances and on social networks, since Saturday night when a shooting broke out in a Washington hotel during a White House correspondents’ dinner.
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