Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Breitbart News that his conversations with leaders across the Middle East suggest a “strong desire” in the region to see expansion of the historic Abraham Accords, and that worldwide the planet is thrilled President Donald Trump is back in the White House, as the “world has been dying for” Trump’s “kind of leadership” again in Washington.

“I think there is a strong desire,” Rubio said when asked if he thinks a deal can be brokered to expand the Abraham Accords to include nations like Saudi Arabia. “I think what was behind October 7 in some ways was an effort to stop that from happening. I think no nation, no regime on the planet, is more freaked out and anti-Abraham Accords expansion than Iran, which is why they were involved in getting Hamas to do October 7. But I think there is a lot of countries out there that would love to enter the Abraham Accords, and obviously we got to get through the situation in Gaza, and that has to get wrapped up in a way that is acceptable to Israel and makes Israel feel that their security interests are taken into account. But assuming that happens, then I do think you’re going to see more countries entering the Abraham Accords which, keep in mind, was one of the most historic advances in Middle East peace in decades and which was widely mocked by Democrats. by the way, when it first happened. We’ve now seen more and more countries, even quietly, I don’t want to say who they are yet because they’ve been quiet about it, but we’ve had more and more countries sort of come forward and say they would like to join as well from the region.including Africa. so I think it’s something we can build on and to me it would be one of the great developments of this term.”