WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - The United States hopes to convince China to play a more active role in trying to persuade Iran to walk away from what it is doing in the Gulf, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview aired on Fox News on Wednesday.

Rubio made the comments in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.

(Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis, Writing by Christian Martinez; editing by Michelle Nichols )