Rubio says Iran deal still possible within days despite U.S. strikes

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said connected Tuesday (May 26, 2026) that a woody with Iran was inactive imaginable contempt caller American strikes that formed uncertainty connected their fragile ceasefire.

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“There were immoderate talks going connected successful Qatar today, truthful we’ll spot if we tin marque progress. I deliberation it’s a batch of talking backmost and distant going connected astir circumstantial connection successful the archetypal document, truthful it’ll instrumentality a fewer days,” Mr. Rubio told reporters successful Jaipur during a sojourn to India.

“The president’s expressed his tendency to marque it. He’s either going to marque a bully woody oregon nary deal,” helium said.

The strikes came arsenic apical Iranian negotiators arrived successful Doha for the latest circular of talks to extremity the months-long conflict, which had prompted Iran to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, a important artery for planetary vigor exports.

Mr. Rubio told reporters that “the straits person to beryllium open”.

“They’re going to beryllium unfastened 1 mode oregon the other, truthful they request to beryllium open. What’s happening determination is unlawful, it’s illegal, it’s unsustainable for the world, it’s unacceptable.”