Rubio Vows Trump Won't Make "Bad Iran Deal" As Diplomacy Given "Full Chance" | VERTEX

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:06]A heat wave. There's a heat wave. There is a heat wave. All right. Anything you want to run?

[00:00:11]Um we're still work in progress. As I said, you know, the we thought we might have some news last night, maybe today. I wouldn't read too much into it. Takes a little while to hear back.

[00:00:21]So, we have a what I think is a pretty solid thing on the table in terms of their ability to open up the straits, get the straits open, enter into a very real, significant, time-limited negotiation on the nuclear matters.

[00:00:33]And hopefully we can pull it off. It has a lot of support in the Gulf. It has a lot of support globally. Every country that we've walked through it understands it's very not just very reasonable, but it's the right thing for the world to get done. As the president said, he's not in a hurry. He's not going to make a bad deal. I mean, the president's not going to make a bad agreement. So, let's see what happens. We'll we're we're going to give diplomacy every chance to succeed before we we explore the alternatives. But look, the president's not going to make a bad deal. He's just not. This This issue, no one has done more and no one has been more serious about the threat of a nuclear Iran than President Trump has been. And so, I'm very confident and we should all be very confident that we're not going to have a We're either going to have a good agreement or we're going to have to deal with it another way. We'd prefer to have a good agreement. Lebanon, we're working on separately. We With Lebanon, we are engaged now. We have a 45-day ceasefire.

[00:01:19]We've had weekly meetings now and ongoing daily engagements between the government of Lebanon and Israel. The problem is not Lebanon and Israel. The problem is Hezbollah. Just last night, Hezbollah put out a statement calling for the overthrow of the Lebanese government. And it just reminds you of who you are dealing with here. By the way, an Iranian proxy, 100% Iranian proxy. And as long as Lebanon exists with armaments As long as an armed Lebanon As long as an armed Hezbollah exists, it's going to be hard to achieve peace in Lebanon. Well, Israel always has a right to protect itself. Every country in the world does. And so, if Hezbollah is going to launch missiles or launches missiles at them, Israel has every right to respond to that or to prevent that from happening. That's always been understood. It's being understood during the ceasefire and it'll be now in in Lebanon and it'll be understood beyond that.

[00:02:05]All right, let's try.

[00:02:06]>> Thank you very much. Thanks.