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TIPSHEET_ Marco Rubio Just Threw Down the Gauntlet With Iran ( Jeff Charles - TOWNHALL)

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Marco Rubio Just Threw Down the Gauntlet With Iran

Jeff Charles | June 02, 2026 11:15 AM


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Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t mince words when responding to Iran’s decision to cut off peace negotiations. 

Rubio testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday morning on the State Department’s budget request amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.

During his testimony, he noted that part of the agreement Washington is pursuing with Iran is that the regime would reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “They did not, at which point the president decided, and I think appropriately, we can’t have a world in which Iran — only Iranian ships get through the Strait,” Rubio said. “And so, if they’re gonna shut down the Strait for everybody, we’re gonna shut down the Strait for them, and we have done that through a very effective blockade.”

He noted that the financial cost for the regime “is in the hundreds of millions of dollars that they are losing in lost revenue that they’re not generating as a result of that.”

The secretary further explained that “talks with Iran are not like talks with Switzerland” and that the regime has “agreed to negotiate aspects of their nuclear program that, just a month ago, just a year ago, they were refusing to even mention, much less enter discussions about.”

But one of the main challenges is the fact that Iran’s “internal regime is somewhat fractured in the sense of it takes days to get responses from their system,” Rubio said.

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