Announcement on Iran war possible soon: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that there could be news regarding a deal with Iran coming out later today.
"I do think perhaps there is the possibility that in the next few hours the world will get some good news," Rubio told reporters during a visit to New Delhi. "I'll leave it to the president to make further announcements."
According to Rubio, "significant, but not final" progress has been made in the Pakistan-brokered talks between Washington and Tehran.
He said the possible agreement with Iran would reopen the State of Hormuz and start a "process that can ultimately leave us where the president wants us to be, and that is a world that no longer has to fear or worry about an Iranian nuclear weapon."
"Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, and it never will have nuclear weapons, certainly not as long as Donald Trump is President of the US," he added.
Iran deal with US still stalled over 'one or two clauses,' Tehran media says
A memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran to end the war is still pending agreement on "one or two clauses," Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.
The Iranian semi-official news agency did not clarify which points were still contentious, but it said the disagreement was due to "obstacles on the US' part."
In another report, Tasnim said that any agreement should end the war on all fronts, by which Tehran often means Israel's war with Iran ally Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran is also reportedly stressing that the US commit to withdrawing its forces from the region surrounding Iran.
The US has military bases in Gulf countries neighboring Iran, which have largely come under Iranian attack amid the war.
