eleventh consecutive night<\/a>, with explosions heard in several parts of the country.<\/p>\nAs the war continues to disrupt two of the world\u2019s most important routes for the transport of energy, Rubio stressed that he was against Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway, charge a toll, and if you don\u2019t pay them blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous precedent, which will repeat itself in other parts of the world, including in this region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt its core, it\u2019s very simple. Iran demands the right, which they do not have under any existing legal mechanism, to control the transit of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a fundamental principle about freedom of navigation that is threatened,\u201d he added. \u201cThat cannot be allowed to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rubio also discussed the US\u2019s relationship with ASEAN member states, saying it is a matter of national interest for Washington and that the security and prosperity of the US and Southeast Asia are closely interconnected.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe very much that the future and the story of the 21st century will be written in this region and by how events unfold here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump renewed his threats to, again, attack Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities at Natanz \u201cpretty soon\u201d. Iran promised it would retaliate.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Khatam Al-Anbiya military command said in a statement on Tuesday that it would \u201cconsider it as an expansion of war in the region\u201d if such an attack were carried out. The statement said it could lead to strikes on \u201call the interests of America, its allies and supporters\u201d.<\/p>\n
Fifty people have been killed and 500 wounded in the recent US attacks on Iran, a health ministry official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State says Iranian control over Strait of Hormuz sets \u2018dangerous precedent\u2019, as attacks continue. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[178,34,49,42,5896,150,69,51,57,73],"class_list":["post-217761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-asia-pacific","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-philippines","tag-shipping","tag-tehran","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116962586992379473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}