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Rubio to Meet Saudi Ambassador at White House Amid Iran Escalation

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Rubio to Meet Saudi Ambassador at White House Amid Iran Escalation

🏛️ RIYADH — Saudi ambassador at White House as Iran targets Gulf bases. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Rubio meeting the Saudi ambassador — not the foreign minister, not a Riyadh trip — keeps this below cabinet-level while flagging urgency. With Iranian missiles already striking Bahrain, Riyadh needs US security guarantees before the next salvo. Saudi oil infrastructure is the unspoken variable: an IRGC strike on Aramco rewrites the war's economic logic entirely.

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