00:00U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio assures that Washington will give diplomacy every chance to
00:06succeed in their ongoing negotiations with Iran. While describing the negotiations as a work in
00:12progress, Rubio also expressed cautious optimism about a possible agreement to reopen Strait of
00:18Hormuz and revive nuclear talks with Iran. Look, the president's not going to make a bad deal.
00:25He's just not. This issue, no one has done more and no one has been more serious about the threat
00:32of
00:32nuclear Iran than President Trump has been. And so I'm very confident that we should all be very
00:36confident that we're either going to have a good agreement or we're going to have to deal with it
00:40another way. We'd prefer to have a good agreement. The two sides remain at odds on several difficult
00:45issues such as Iran's nuclear ambitions, Israel's war in Lebanon with Hezbollah and Tehran's demands
00:51for the lifting of sanctions and the release of tens of billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenues
00:56frozen in foreign banks. Rubio is on a four-day visit to India aimed at shoring up relations
01:02battered by Washington's tariffs and engagement with New Delhi's rivals, Pakistan and China.
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