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Marco Rubio: “The Straits of Hormuz do not belong to Iran. They don't have…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio conducts a White House briefing

Published | Video Starts at 55:24

We keep arguing back and forth about the war and the shooting and this and that of the other these guys have shot are shut down. An international waterway. The Straits of Hormuz do not belong to Iran. They don't have a right to shut it down and blow up ships and lay mines. And that's what they've done. That needs to be addressed. Otherwise, and it cannot be normalized. Under no circumstances can we live in a world where we accept, okay, this is normal. (55:24–55:32)

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Asserts that Iran does not have the right to control the Straits of Hormuz.

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