Sec. Rubio on Iran Negotiations: We’re Expecting a Response from Them

‘We’ve seen the reporting overnight that Iran has established or trying to establish some agency that’s going to control traffic in the straits, that would be very problematic’

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RUBIO: “Well, we should know something today. I mean, we’re expecting a response from them. We’ll see what the response entails. The hope is it’s something that it can put us into a serious process of negotiation. Obviously, we’ve seen the reporting overnight that Iran has established or trying to establish some agency that’s going to control traffic in the straits, that would be very problem — that would actually be unacceptable. I mean, we’re — the normalizing of their controlling of international waterways, both illegal and it’s just something that’s unacceptable. And the world should start asking itself, what is it willing to do if Iran tries to normalize a control of an international waterway.” 

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