Rubio Highlights Iran Red Line and New Armenia

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is one of the great surprises of President Trump’s second time period; he has shown himself to be the best Secretary of State since Cordell Hull; perhaps since Thomas Jefferson. He’s adept, he thinks on his ft, and when he is in any assemblage of international diplomats, he is nearly always the neatest man in the room. 

First, Secretary Rubio talked about Iran and its nuclear program, then went into a number of other topics. Watch:

.@SecRubio supplies an update at the Cabinet assembly: One of the locations I finished last night time was to initial the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity in Armenia… and in addition to that, we also signed a vital minerals MoU with them. pic.twitter.com/iF5k7pscDg

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 27, 2026

About Iran, Secretary Rubio said:

First of all, the underside line is Iran’s never going to have a nuclear weapon. And if current occasions have carried out something, it just reminds us once again that they’re the world’s main sponsor of terrorism. And they will never have a nuclear weapon. Now, the president’s desire, Mr. President, your desire, as he is told us repeatedly, as always, is to negotiate these issues and to work out if we will have agreements. Diplomacy is our first option, and we continue to work on that through envoys, Mr. Witkoff, and Kushner and others, the vice president, who has been very concerned. There’s an settlement to be made; we wish that to occur. I feel there’s been some progress and some curiosity. We’ll see over the next few hours or days whether or not progress may be made.

But I just need to remind everyone, Mr. President, as you understand as properly, there are other choices out there to you if that would not work. But the underside line is we would favor a negotiated diplomatic route, and we’re going to give every likelihood to succeed. I do know you are giving it every likelihood to succeed, Mr. President. But this is the underside line: I keep getting requested, what this is all about, and it’s extremely simple: Iran and the people in charge of Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, and they may never have a nuclear weapon, and they most actually won’t have one as long as you’re President of the United States. On that level, it’s extremely clear.

There’s an outdated saying that I’ve cited before, that states “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie, nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.” Well, Iran has been taking a beating from that rock for some time now, and we’re still saying “Nice doggie.” 

No nukes, as the administration has made abundantly clear, is the crimson line. Secretary Rubio continues:

Just two fast issues I need to contact upon. One, we touched upon the border and security. Part of securing our border is dealing with the people that are in this nation unlawfully, many of whom don’t want to go back to the nation they initially got here from for a selection of causes. Either we will not ship them there or some choose ties us up. And one of the key issues achieved is now 20 international locations have signed third-country national agreements, which means these are secure international locations where people who refuse to go back to their nation of origin may very well be despatched to that nation instead. We’ve bought 20 international locations around the world who’ve signed agreements that enable us to deport people to those locations. What often occurs when you go to the individual who is right here unlawfully, ‘We’re going to ship you to this third nation,’ is all of a sudden, they resolve that they’d moderately go back to their home nation instead. It offers us the flexibility to implement our legal guidelines. And we work very intently with the Department of Homeland Security on that entrance.

That’s an attention-grabbing data level. Plenty of us (me included) have long suspected that the “asylum seekers” and “refugees” among the waves of unlawful immigrants had a high proportion of phonies. This would seem to affirm that.

Now, on Ebola:

Something else that I do know is regarding people because it is in the news is Ebola. Our primary obligation, you understand, we’re concerned in international coverage but even in our international coverage, our primary precedence of our international coverage is to shield the American people. We can not and won’t enable any instances of Ebola to enter the United States. So we’re, the State Department and other companies represented right here, the Centers for Disease Control, HHS, others, are working very very arduous to include this disaster in the international locations where it is at present positioned, significantly the Democratic Republic of Congo. And so we’ve got surged help that is being contained there. And clearly a number of companies concerned listed here are also very concerned in monitoring people just to make sure no one comes into the nation who has Ebola and creates a drawback for us. We really feel like we have got good efforts in place to do that, and Americans ought to really feel assured the President is doing the whole lot they will to shield them on this entrance.

There have been, as of this writing, no Ebola instances reported in the United States, so it is working. That’s a good factor; Ebola, particularly in the first couple of generations of an outbreak, has an completely horrifyingly low recovery price; assuming you’re close to any fashionable medical facility, your survival odds are better if you’re taking a 9mm bullet through a lung than they’re if you contract Ebola. 

Next, another mineral deal is completed:

My last level: I said I used to be all over the place. One of the locations I finished in last night time was to initial the Trump Route for Prosperity in Armenia. This is a key linchpin of the peace deal you have been ready to obtain between Armenia and Azerbaijan. And, in addition to that, we also signed a vital minerals MoU with them, and a strategic engagement as properly. So just a reminder of another struggle you helped to settle, Mr. President. But from that has now, we’re seeing the emergence of a great new relationship with Armenia that actually had grown stagnant for a long period of time. So, we’re doing properly on this entrance as properly. Thank you.

Minerals are as very important to our financial system as oil and fuel; it is good to see yet another deal there.

Read More: Putin Pouts As Rubio Locks in Armenia Minerals Deal and Advances ‘Trump Route’

Rubio to Cuba’s Communist Thugs: Stop Blaming America for the Misery You Created

Finally, President Trump requested for an update on Cuba and Venezuela, in which Secretary Rubio said:

In Venezuela, the method continues, that three-phase course of, of, clearly, stabilization, recovery, and transition. I might say since January third of this yr, I feel this quantity is true, Chris or Doug can right me on this, but I feel over 10 million barrels of Venezuelan oil have been delivered to the United States since the third of January. That industry is being professionalized for the first time ever. It’s going to the benefit of the Venezuelan people. They are promoting oil in the market at market charges. The money goes into an account in the United States to be held and monitored by the Treasury, audited by KPMG, and for the first time, the money’s not being stolen. It’s going to the benefit of the Venezuelan people.

Cuba is in a lot of bother because, sadly for them, it is run by a bunch of incompetent communists. Being communist is unhealthy, but being an incompetent communist is just like the worst. But the nation has been taken over by this company called GAESA that principally controls 70 p.c of the financial system. None of the money in that company goes to help the Cuban people. None of it. So we’ll be speaking to them, we’ll be working on it, we wish one thing good for the Cuban people. And hopefully, there can be a good final result for them there. There wants to be. It’s 90 miles from our shores, and having a failed state 90 miles from our shores is a menace to the national security of the United States. 

There’s a lot to soak up there. Thumbnail: Venezuela appears to be shifting in the suitable direction, although I might warning that nothing there’s sure until they’ve truthful elections; that’s doubtless why the receipts from the sale of Venezuelan oil is being held by the United States. As for Cuba, it is doubtless that the communist regime there’ll maintain on until some major collapse forces them out.

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