Talks with Iran could fail and diplomacy may not succeed, Rubio tells Congress

Middle East Eye · June 30, 2026 Politics

Talks with Iran could fail and diplomacy may not succeed, Rubio tells Congress US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress that the Trump administration has no illusions about the difficulty of negotiations with Iran and recognises that the talks could fail, according to sources cited by MSNOW (formerly MSNBC). Rubio said the administration nevertheless wanted to give diplomacy an opportunity to succeed. "There was a possibility that the negotiations would fail, but we wanted to give the diplomatic track a chance," he told lawmakers, according to the report.

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