{"id":555521,"date":"2026-07-23T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/555521\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:01:15","slug":"iran-not-ready-to-make-a-deal-will-pay-heavy-price-marco-rubio-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/555521\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran not ready to make a deal, will pay heavy price, Marco Rubio says"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the price for Iran\u2019s recent escalation<\/a> in violence will increase every night until leadership in Tehran \u201ccome to their senses,\u201d while speaking with reporters on the sidelines of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He claimed that Iran is begging to make another deal with Washington after the previous US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding collapsed, but noted that \u201cit looks like they are not ready to make a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is that any time they make a deal, the people that are in charge either break it or they want to change it,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n

He posited that Iran may be ready to make a deal in a few days, \u201cas they continue to suffer great losses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding US President Donald Trump\u2019s position on how to deal with Iran, Rubio stated that Trump will take \u201ca head for an eye,\u201d referencing Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi\u2019s previous claims that Iran operates with an \u201ceye for an eye\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n

Rubio asserted that as long as Trump is in office, Iran will never be allowed to develop or possess a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe number one threat to the world is these lunatics in possession of a nuclear weapon,\u201d he said in reference to Iran\u2019s leadership, adding that \u201csome of them are lunatics, some of them are evil, and some of them are evil lunatics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio asserted that Iran has the potential to be the richest country in the Middle East but decried Tehran for choosing to fund terrorist proxies, rather than investing in its own people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey take their money, and they give it to Hezbollah, they give it to Hamas, they give it to the Houthis, they give it to Shia militias, they give it to sponsor terrorism all over the world,\u201d he elaborated.<\/p>\n

When asked about whether the US is still seeking regime change after having killed many top Iranian officials during Operation Epic Fury, Rubio stated that the US\u2019s top priority is pursuing a denuclearized Iran that will never have a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the price for Iran\u2019s recent escalation in violence will increase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,87,11741,43,3336,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-555521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-marco-rubio","tag-news","tag-tehran","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}