Rubio has now reiterated the total dead end, as well as the moral depravity, of the US’s current policy vis a vis Iran. Speaking to reporters in Paris on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting, Rubio said: “at this point the economic campaign and the pressure and the devastation that our economic campaign is having on the Iranian regime is working so well that the President really doesn’t have any need to conduct major combat operations… But as of now, there’s really no need for major combat operations any longer, because the blockade and the economic sanctions are doing devastation to their economy.”

Axios frames this as a carefully crafted decision: When Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his G7 counterparts in Paris on Tuesday, he told them that President Trump had considered resuming the war with Iran or cutting a deal—but chose a third option: strangling the Iranian regime, three people who attended the meeting told Axios.” “He’s been searching for the solution, but he wasn’t sure what’s the best way to go,” a U.S. official close to Trump said.

The US war of aggression against Iran is really Iran’s fault because the leadership in Tehran treats its people so badly. That was the beastman logic that Little Marco put in full display yesterday in Paris. He told reporters that he had briefed his G7 counterparts that there was no need for further combat actions against Iran “because the blockade and the economic sanctions are doing devastation to their economy. And it’s sad. The Iranian people deserve better than to be a third-world country, which is where their leadership is taking them. But that’s what their leaders have brought upon them.” .” By that logic, the Minab school massacre was really the fault of Iran’s leadership even though the cruise missiles that hit the school were American. But of course no reporter present had the temerity to even bring that up.