America just named the bridges it will bomb in Iran if talks collapse
Marco Rubio just said there's no breakthrough with Iran.
And a few hours before that, Donald Trump said new strikes are highly unlikely.
So which is it?
Marco Rubio is America's Secretary of State. He spoke to reporters at Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida a day ago, on his way to a G7 meeting in Paris.
He says Iran's demands are not just unacceptable. He says some of them are not realistic.
Marco Rubio says quote "I wouldn't say we're at the verge of a breakthrough".
That's the top US diplomat saying there's no deal in sight.
But Donald Trump sounded different the same day.
In a phone interview with CNN's Jim Sciutto, he said new strikes on Iran are highly unlikely, if talks produce a strong agreement.
Here's the twist though.
Trump also said America has already picked out new targets inside Iran. Power plants. And 38 bridges.
He says they could come down in one hour if the fighting starts again.
And he says he'd rather not do it. Because rebuilding those bridges would take about ten years.
So Trump is saying a deal is close enough to spare the targets. And in the same breath, naming every target that gets hit if it isn't.
Trump also said three US aircraft carriers are sitting in the region right now, fully locked and loaded.
He says Iran is down to around ten per cent of its missile capacity. And fifteen per cent of its drones.
Now, why is Rubio even talking about this today?
Because Trump said a lot of people didn't like what JD Vance, the US Vice President, just said. Vance blamed the Iran war for the Republican Party losing Congress in last week's midterm elections.
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