Rubio says US will find ‘another option’ if Iran talks fail | Story

The US Secretary of State said a “strong” deal is on the table to open the Strait of Hormuz.

The United States will protect a strong relationship with Iran or face the world “another way”, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that after President Donald Trump moved to hope that an agreement to end the war is close.

“We thought we could have a news last night, maybe today. I wouldn’t read too much,” Rubio said in New Delhi on Monday, referring to the agreement that could end the US-Israel conflict in Iran, which began on February 28.

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“We have what I think are strong players on the table in terms of their ability to open problems, open problems,” he told reporters in the Indian capital, where he visited.

Washington and Tehran have seen a ceasefire since April 8 as mediators push for a deal despite Iran continuing to block the Strait of Hormuz from shipping and the US closing Iranian ports.

A day earlier, Trump posted on Truth Social ⁠that the US blockade “will remain in place until an agreement is reached, ratified, and signed”.

“Both sides need to take time and work it out,” he added.

There is no immediate response from the Iranian government. But the Tasnim News Agency, linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the US was blocking some aspects of a potential deal.

“We’re going to have a good deal, or we’re going to deal with it some other way. We want to have a good deal,” Rubio said.

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A Trump administration official explained what he said was the latest in a series of discussions.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official told Reuters news agency that Iran had agreed “directly” to dump its highly enriched uranium and open the Strait of Hormuz to allow the US to lift the military blockade.

The US understood that Supreme Leader ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mojtaba Khamenei had approved a broad framework for cooperation, he added.

There was no immediate confirmation from Iran or a clear explanation of what the “deal” meant.

A US official said Washington is considering for the first time reopening the river and removing the US military border. Negotiating the details of the nuclear options would take a long time, he said.

The official pushed back on the idea that Iran had not agreed to dump its stockpile of uranium. “It’s a question of how,” the officer said.

Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the back-and-forth between the U.S. and Iran means a deal will not be reached anytime soon.

“I think this is similar to the lessons of the Trump administration. One day they walk this way. The next day they walk that way,” he told Al Jazeera.

Some of these conversations are confidential. Some of it is public discussion, but until we know that the Iranians will say yes to removing highly enriched uranium…