Rubio Says 'Whole World' Is Against Iran Closing Straits

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]what is going to get the straight reopened? Because this is kind of the only question that matters for American consumers right now. And every day we get wildly different signals from the president as to whether he even is engaged in this question as to whether the strait is going to reopen.

[00:00:17]>> 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.

[00:00:34]Number one, what they're doing is unlawful and illegal. There isn't a country on earth other than Iran and maybe Oman that flirted with it who's in favor of what Iran is doing in the straits. The Chinese are against it. The Russians are against it. Everyone is against it. The whole world is against it. So, condition number one is they have to reopen the straits. And reopening the straits means the following. Ships can sail through international waters the way they can do through other choke points around the world without being fired upon, without paying a toll.