Foreign Pool Report # 11

VP JD Vance said, in substance, that there have been many militia attacks against U.S. positions in the region, that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has tried to limit the number of people at the embassy so essential functions can continue while protecting personnel, and that the episode shows there are many terrorists in that part of the world who need to be eliminated when found.

The clearest extract is: “Yeah, well, Marco, obviously, the Secretary of State has control over the embassy. There have been a lot of militia attacks against our base, our embassy in Iran. I think Marco’s done a good job of limiting the number of people who are at that embassy, so we can provide essential functions, but also protect our people. But it goes to show there are a lot of terrorists in that region of the world, and we’ve got to eliminate them when we find them. And you can’t give them nuclear weapons. You can give them rifles, you can give them guns, you can’t give them nuclear weapons.”

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