US Secretary of State Marco Rubio leveled strong accusations against the Iranian regime, describing the brutality with which Iranian authorities repress their own population. His statements also aimed to clarify, once again for those who still don't understand, President Donald Trump's stance on the Iranian nuclear threat.
Rubio asserted that the regime's violence is not limited to
the streets, but extends even to hospitals, where wounded people are hunted
down and killed, along with medical personnel attempting to treat them.
"They have massacred tens of thousands of their own
people in the streets. When the wounded arrive at the hospital, they go in
after them and kill them in their beds. They often also kill the doctors and
nurses who tried to save them," he declared.
The official warned that the Iranian government's behavior
toward its own citizens should be a cause for international concern, especially
given the possibility that the regime could develop nuclear weapons. “Now
imagine what they would be capable of doing to us if they had a nuclear bomb.
That’s exactly what President Trump prevented. And that’s what some still don’t
want to understand,” Rubio said.
His statements once again place the Iranian nuclear threat,
internal repression, and the national security reasons that the Trump
administration reasonably presents—according to several geopolitical
analysts—for its policy toward Tehran at the center of the debate.
Washington maintains that preventing the Iranian regime from
obtaining nuclear weapons is a security priority. This is increasingly
supported by experts on the subject, who agree that it not only addresses the
security of the United States, but that of the entire world, although, as Rubio
said, “Many still don’t understand that.”