Rubio accuse l'Iran de prendre le monde "en otage"
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday accused Iran of trying "to hold the world hostage" with its strikes against Gulf countries and by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, calling it a "terrorist regime".
"I think we are all currently seeing the threat that this clerical regime poses to the region and the world. They are trying to take the world hostage," Rubio said during a ceremony at the State Department.
"They are attacking neighboring countries, their energy infrastructure, their civilian population," he said.
"The objective of this mission is to destroy their ability to continue doing so, and we are well on our way to achieving that," the Secretary of State added.
The United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28 and killed the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the very first day.
Since then, Iran has launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel and the Arab monarchies of the Gulf, which are key bases for US forces.
Mr. Rubio was speaking at a ceremony honoring Americans "illegally detained" around the world.
He was accompanied by members of the family of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in 2007.
The United States concluded in 2020 that the Iranian government was involved in his alleged death.
Mr. Levinson was supposed to be on a mission to investigate cigarette counterfeiting, although the Washington Post reported in 2013 that he was working with the CIA and had undertaken an unauthorized mission to gather intelligence.
Robert Levinson "particularly reminds us of the nature of the regime we are dealing with in Tehran," said Mr. Rubio, stressing that it was founded "on an attack against the brave men and women of our diplomatic and civilian service," referring to the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran after the Shah was overthrown in 1979.
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