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Marco Rubio: “We'll impose costs on Iran if they attack American…”

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

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Marco Rubio Discusses US-Iran Tensions and Operation Midnight Hammer

Published | Video Starts at 07:31

Well, they'll attack our bases and those are our bases and we're going to defend our personnel and we're prepared to do that. But we'll do more than just defend. We'll impose costs on Iran if they attack American personnel, whether they do it directly or, or whether they do it through some of these proxies that they try to hide behind and that includes the Houthis. So another proxy of theirs. So but let's hope they don't choose that route. Let's all hope that they actually decide, okay, let's go negotiate. Because we want a diplomatic and peaceful solution. (07:31–07:42)

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Asserts that the U.S. will impose costs on Iran if they attack American personnel directly or through proxies like the Houthis.

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