Iran willing to discuss aspects of nuclear programme they refused to mention: Rubio

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Now, we are in talks. And I say talks, because talks with Iran are not like talks with Switzerland, okay? They're very different. They require the use of intermediaries, unfortunately. But, there is the prospect before us, which could happen today, it could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week, that for the first time, certainly in in my memory, they have agreed to negotiate aspects of their nuclear program that just a month ago, just a a year ago, they were refusing to even mention, much less enter into discussions about. That is not a guarantee that ultimately it will lead to a deal that's acceptable to the Senate or acceptable to the American people. But, we'll be able to engage them in a process to truly test the proposition of how far they're willing to go. Complicating that process, unfortunately, is their internal regime is somewhat fractured in the sense of it takes days to get responses from their system. We can go into more depth in your follow-up questions. But, um but we're hopeful that something like that could happen in which the straits would reopen, we would enter into a period of negotiations on very specific topics, delineated negotiations, in the hope of reaching an outcome that's acceptable to us, and something they would be able to do as well. If it doesn't work out, then obviously we still have a problem it with respect to um their nuclear ambitions. But, what they won't have is the conventional shield behind behind any longer.