US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is currently on a visit to India, said that while work is in progress to arrive at a peace deal between Tehran and
Washington, he assured that President Donald Trump will not make a bad deal. "We're still a work in progress... 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. And hopefully we can pull it off," Rubio's remarks came while he was speaking to reporters in the national capital, before departing for Agra. The US Secretary of State clarified that Trump's remarks regarding the negotiations were not in a hurry and highlighted that the negotiations have good faith and support among the Gulf partners. "As the president said he's not in a hurry, he's not going to make a bad deal. We're going to give diplomacy every chance to succeed before we explore the alternatives," Rubio said, adding, "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." Earlier on Sunday, Trump touted that any future negotiations with Tehran would differ sharply from those negotiated during Former US President Barack Obama's presidency. Slamming the Obama administration for providing substantial financial relief while leaving open a pathway to nuclear weapons development for Iran, Trump called his deal the "exact opposite" and highlighted that it has not been fully negotiated upon. Trump also said that Washington will not "rush into a deal" with Iran to achieve a complete solution to the crisis in West Asia, asserting that the US "blockade" on the ports of the Islamic Republic will remain in "full force and effect" until a formal agreement is reached, certified, and signed between the two sides. (With agency inputs)
