{"id":36299,"date":"2026-05-14T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/us-secretary-rubio-raises-questions-about-nato-during-the-war-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:05:39","slug":"us-secretary-rubio-raises-questions-about-nato-during-the-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/us-secretary-rubio-raises-questions-about-nato-during-the-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary Rubio raises questions about NATO during the war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_d537cf5e42c436785159e37fd48dedf1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio raised questions about NATO during the war with Iran, criticizing Spain for denying US aircraft access to its bases during the war. Medium,&#8221; Rubio said in an interview with &#8220;Fox News,&#8221; aired Wednesday but recorded earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So when you have NATO partners denying you the use of these bases, when the main reason why NATO is good for America is now being denied to us by Spain, for example, then what is the purpose of the Alliance? It starts to become a kind of &#8216;they&#8217;re allies when they want to be,'&#8221; he added he.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has denied US military aircraft access to its air bases during the Iran conflict, prompting threats from Washington of a trade embargo, troop withdrawal and even suspension from NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying that there are countries in NATO that are \u201cvery useful\u201d to the US, Rubio said \u201cothers like Spain have been terrible, just terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the point of being in a aleanc\u00eb, p\u00ebrfitimi i s\u00eb cil\u00ebs p\u00ebr ne \u00ebsht\u00eb k\u00ebto t\u00eb drejta bazimi, n\u00ebse, n\u00eb nj\u00eb koh\u00eb konflikti si ai q\u00eb kemi pasur me Iranin, ata mund t\u00eb na mohojn\u00eb p\u00ebrdorimin e k\u00ebtyre bazave? At\u00ebher\u00eb, pse jemi atje? Vet\u00ebm p\u00ebr t\u2019i mbrojtur ata, por jo p\u00ebr t\u00eb \u00e7uar p\u00ebrpara interesin ton\u00eb komb\u00ebtar? Kjo \u00ebsht\u00eb nj\u00eb pyetje shum\u00eb legjitime q\u00eb duhet ta adresojm\u00eb\u201d, tha Rubio.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio raised questions about NATO during the war with Iran, criticizing Spain for denying US aircraft access to its bases during the war. Medium,&#8221; Rubio said in an interview with &#8220;Fox News,&#8221; aired Wednesday but recorded earlier this week. &#8220;So when you have NATO partners denying you the use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-36299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":8,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36301,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36299\/revisions\/36301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}