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Rubio says US shoots down a drone or missile aimed at a ship "virtually every day, every other day"

Asked in Atlanta what guarantees the US would give Gulf partners if it resumed strikes on Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said "CENTCOM is there now protecting it," referring to Gulf oil and gas moving through the Straits of Hormuz. He said: "Virtually every day, every other day, we shoot down a drone or a missile that’s aimed at a ship". On other countries joining in, he said: "we’ve had some very limited cooperation but not much".

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