He said that, by invading the Islamic Republic, the president prevented it from reaching a “line of immunity.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio elaborated on the reason President Donald Trump took action against the Islamic Republic eight months ago. He described the war as preventing Iran from reaching a “line of immunity,” after which it would have been difficult to prevent the development of its nuclear program.
“[President Trump] could not allow them to reach a point where they had so many missiles, so many drones, and so many weapons that you couldn’t do anything militarily about their nuclear program,” Secretary Rubio said. “That’s what they were trying to achieve. That’s what the President prevented. And he saved the world a tremendous amount of trouble… the only way we would have found out about the opposite is to allow it to happen.”
“What Iran was trying to do is they were trying to build up so many conventional weapons, meaning they’d have so many drones, so many rockets, so many missiles that nobody could possibly touch them. They would become immune,” the secretary continued. “Behind that conventional shield of weaponry to threaten the entire region, our forces, even Europe, they would then break out toward a nuclear weapon.”
Secretary Rubio added that President Trump “has consistently said from the very beginning of this operation: Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. And that’s what this whole endeavor has been about from the very beginning. If Iran had a nuclear weapon, they could do whatever they want with the straits.”
After ordering the Iranian delegation to leave the United States once negotiations stalled earlier this week, the secretary highlighted the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ attacks on commercial shipping as one of the significant impediments to a peace deal with Iran.
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
For Secretary Rubio as he heads the State Department and simultaneously serves as National Security Advisor.
For the president and his Cabinet secretaries to seek God’s guidance as they set foreign and domestic policies.
Sources: Townhall, Jerusalem Post, MSN, Iran International
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