️🇺🇸🇮🇷 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran wants a deal with Washington, but its current demands are "absurd", suggesting that mounting economic pressure may eventually force Tehran to reconsider its position:.
"Oh, I think Iran would like a deal. The problem is that the conditions they continue to impose are absurd. Like, they're not even serious right now. But that can change.
Obviously, I mean, the pain they feel is... In the end, you have to eat. Ultimately, you have to be able to pay your fighters and your security forces and so on.
In the end, economic reality penetrates the skull of even the most radical lunatic."