VIDEO | "Eventually, you have to eat." In a callous admission of Washington's strategy of collective punishment, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio openly boasted that the White House intends to starve the Iranian population into submission through an escalating economic siege. Speaking at the G7 summit of foreign ministers in Paris in statements reported by international news networks, Rubio dismissed Tehran's diplomatic position, claiming that while "Iran would love a deal," their terms remain "absurd" and "not even serious." Exposing the cruel premise underlying the US campaign of financial strangulation, Rubio arrogantly predicted that Tehran's stance would soon collapse under the weight of severe economic blockade. "Eventually, you have to eat," the chief US diplomat stated, callously signaling Washington's reliance on weaponized poverty, food insecurity, and hyperinflation to coerce the Islamic Republic into capitulation.