US state secretary Marco Rubio at the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting at the French Foreign and European Affairs Ministry in Paris. (EPA Images pic)PARIS: US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Tuesday said he saw no need to resume major combat operations against Iran because economic sanctions and other restrictions were working so effectively.

"The economic campaign (against Iran) is so devastating that right now there is no need for major combat operations," Rubio said after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Paris. "That's what I told our allies here today."

President Donald Trump "has concluded that for the time being there is no need for major combat operations because we are achieving the same objective by economic means," Rubio said.