Iran war: How ‘Little’ Marco Rubio embraced Trump’s inner circle and why he may dethrone him
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The President calling this a big day for world peace, saying Iran has had enough and so has everyone else. We're now over a month on from Trump's April ceasefire announcement. But this week, an escalation in hostilities between the US and Iran is now threatening that tenacious truce.
This is the latest example of shots being fired, deadly munitions flying through the air from apparently both sides. Clearly tensions are rising and this is the second time in three days that we've had similar incidents and it does raise questions about what happens next.
So how realistic is the prospect of a peace deal at this point? And with Secretary of State Marco Rubio increasingly rowing in behind the President's foreign policy agenda, who is this political hawk turned Trump cheerleader? Mr. President, you know this well. You have other options available to you if that doesn't work. But the bottom line is that we prefer the negotiated diplomatic route and we're going to give it every chance to succeed. And how did he climb to the top of the Mar-a-Lago ladder? I'm Tessa Fleming and today on the IndoDaily, I'm joined by Scott Lucas, Professor of US and International Politics at the Clinton Institute, UCD, to discuss the latest on Iran and the rise of Marco Rubio.
Scott Lucas, it's Thursday morning and I suppose with a lot of news stories involving Donald Trump, this is again a fast changing and an ever evolving situation. So the US and Iran appear to be close to a peace deal. However, this week there has been an escalation in hostilities between the two and that has really threatened this tenacious ceasefire that took effect in early April. So before we get into, I suppose, the details of a potential peace deal and how likely that is now, Talk me through what has happened with these hostilities and why tensions have flared.
Well, we had, of course, this war that started on February 28th, where the US and Israel decided either to get regime change or regime surrender. And on that very first day, you may remember that they killed Iran's supreme leader. They killed dozens of officials and commanders.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–10:05
2
What recent events have escalated tensions between the US and Iran?
10:05–13:08
3
How realistic is the prospect of a peace deal between the US and Iran?
13:08–13:38
4
Who is Marco Rubio and what role does he play in US foreign policy?
13:38–15:32
5
What led to Marco Rubio's rise within Trump's administration?
15:32–20:40
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What were the key events that triggered the US-Iran conflict?
20:40–27:27
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