The United States will have a good agreement with Iran or pact with the country “another way,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday.
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Either way, Iran will reach a deal with the U.S.
Or else, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to a story by Newsmax.
The United States will have a good agreement with Iran or pact with the country “another way,” Rubio said Monday, as Washington played down hopes for a pending breakthrough in the three-month-old war.
In New Delhi, Rubio told reporters that the U.S. would give mediation every opportunity to succeed before seeking “alternatives,” after President Donald Trump said Sunday he had told his representatives not to rush into any Iran deal.
Rubio said there was a “pretty solid thing on the table in terms of their ability to open up the strait, get the strait open, enter into a very real, significant, time-limited negotiation on the nuclear matter, and hopefully we can pull it off.”
Before the war, the critical waterway of the Strait of Hormuz had carried a fifth of global shipments of oil and liquefied natural gas.
The U.S. and Iran remain at odds on several difficult issues, such as Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, Israel’s war in Lebanon with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists and Iran’s demands for the lifting of sanctions and the release of tens of billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenues frozen in foreign banks.
On Sunday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. blockade on Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz would “remain in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed.”
The President added, “Both sides must take their time and get it right.”
However, from the Iranian front, there was no immediate response. Nevertheless, the Tasnim news agency, connected to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said the U.S. was still obstructing parts of a potential deal, including Tehran’s demand for the release of frozen funds.
But at the gas pumps, oil prices fell 6% to two-week lows on Monday, as optimism grew that the United States and Iran were moving closer to a peace deal.
