US President Donald Trump has decided that there is currently no need to resume large-scale military operations against Iran.
Sea-news.az reports citing TASS, that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the statement during a press conference following the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in France.
“Economic pressure on Iran is so devastating and effective that the President has decided there is currently no need to conduct full-scale combat operations. We are achieving the same objectives through economic means.
At the same time, we are both protecting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and enforcing a blockade of Iran’s seaports,” Rubio stated.
Rubio added that the US rejects Iran’s current terms regarding the potential termination of hostilities in negotiations, describing Tehran’s demands as absurd.
“Iran wants a deal very badly. The problem is that the conditions they continue to put forward are absurd. They are currently not behaving seriously, in essence. But that, of course, could change,” he noted.
According to him, Iran is specifically demanding reparations:
“They should be paying reparations themselves, because they are the ones who have destabilized the Middle East region over an extended period.”
