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Marco Rubio: “There wouldn't have been a blockade if Iran had agreed to do…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:37

We can't live in a world in which they get to close the straits and tell everybody, pay us a toll or we'll blow you up. But their ships get to go out unfettered. So that's the reason why there's a blockade. There wouldn't have been a blockade if Iran had agreed to do what they said they would do when the ceasefire kicked in. which is they were going to open the straits. So let me just focus on the straits for a moment. Number one. What they're doing is unlawful and illegal. (01:37–01:42)

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Asserts that Iran's failure to comply with ceasefire terms led to the blockade.

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