“Secretary of State Marco Rubio will head to the Middle East this week for meetings with Arab Gulf allies, a high-stakes diplomatic assignment for a prominent Iran hawk who largely kept a low profile as the Trump administration pursued its fragile ceasefire deal with Tehran,” the Washington Post reports.
Rubio’s Trip Tests His Stance on Trump’s Iran Deal
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