— Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran and Russia:Nothing that anyone is providing Iran is in any way impeding our ability to act as necessary to protect the United States.
That said, it is clear that, in the case of what Iran is doing, we are not necessarily fully aligned with the Russian position on it.
But Russia's got, you know, and Putin's got his own set of problems that I think take up the majority of his time and focus, which is, you know, the war with Ukraine and, frankly, the impacts that these Ukrainian strikes are having on the Russian economy in combination with sanctions.
