00:00Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stressed that U.S. efforts to reopen the strait is not an
00:05offensive operation, despite clashes with Iran in the last several days.
00:10Rubio said Operation Epic Fury, the name given to the initial U.S.-Israeli offensive against Iran, had finished, but stopped
00:18short of saying the conflict is over or cannot be restarted.
00:23Yeah, look, the Operation Epic Fury is concluded. We achieved the objectives of that operation.
00:30I'm not going to, you know, we're not cheering for an additional situation to occur. We would prefer the path
00:36of peace.
00:37What the president would prefer is a deal. He would prefer to sit down, work out a memorandum of understanding
00:42for future negotiations that touches on all the key topics that have to be addressed, a full opening of the
00:46strait so the world can get back to normal.
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