U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait on Wednesday, pledging that Washington would not compromise Gulf security as he sought to ease concerns over a proposed agreement aimed at ending the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran.
The U.S.-Iran accord reached last week - the first signed by American and Iranian presidents since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution - includes a proposed $300 billion fund and the waiver of some sanctions for Tehran.
Arriving in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi late on Tuesday for a three-day tour of the oil-rich Gulf, Rubio is undertaking his first high-level diplomatic mission on the agreement to end the four-month-old war with Iran.
"We're not going to do anything that undermines the security of our allies, our longstanding allies in the region," he told reporters in Kuwait, his second stop on the tour.
During the war, Tehran fought two of the world's most powerful militaries and took effective control of the Strait of Hormuz, where commercial shipping of oil and gas was heavily disrupted, rattling energy markets and the world economy.
