Boasting about the US naval blockade, Rubio said that US shut down straits for Iranian ships. “The first is they entered into a ceasefire. They agreed, we agreed to stop, but part of that agreement is that they would reopen the straits. They did not. At which point the president decided, and I think appropriately, we can’t have a world in which Iran, only Iranian ships get through the straits. And so if they’re going to shut down the straits for everybody, we’re going to shut down the straits for them. And we have done that through a very effective blockade and, by the way, through the seizure of sanctioned ships in the Indo-Pacific as well,” he said.
