Rubio: Further US Military Action Not Needed Against Iran

(AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says further U.S. military action against Iran is unnecessary because the economic pain inflicted on a weakened Islamic Republic is so great. The U.S. military has intercepted two Iranian attack drones headed toward Bahrain. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has claimed it struck a U.S. radar system in Bahrain, but this couldn’t be independently verified. Iran also reports a tanker struck a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz. In Iran, thousands mourned 350 unidentified soldiers from the Iran-Iraq war. In Gaza, a 9-month-old boy died from hypothermia, raising concerns about the winter ahead. And Iran told the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog that discussions on monitoring cannot proceed while the country faces military threats.