Marco Rubio

That's a very substantial achievement, and that was the purpose of this operation from day one.

Well, that's one of the topics that needs to be discussed.

I don't know about—I think you're linking it.

The operation is over.

Epic Fury is the president-notified Congress.

We're done with that stage of it.

We're now on to this project of freedom.

If we live in a world

where a rogue state like this Iranian regime is allowed to claim as a new normal control of our international shipping lane, it will not be long before you see that happen in multiple shipping lanes around the world.

I can identify for you six or seven, six or seven vital shipping lanes around the world that some countries can decide, guess what?

If Iran was able to do it, we're gonna do it too.

We're not gonna start charging tolls and it'll get closer and closer to us.

That's unacceptable.

I think the president, without trying to speak for him, but I think I can characterize it this way.

He doesn't understand why anybody, leave aside the Pope, the president and I, for that matter, I think most people, I cannot understand why anyone would think that it's a good idea for Iran to ever have a nuclear weapon.

Look what they're doing with the Straits right now.

They're holding the whole world hostage.

They have these sailors, you know, on commercial ships that are going to starve to death out there.

They don't care.

They don't care that this is melting down economies around the world, even of their own allies.