Iran Has Showed Willingness to Negotiate Aspects of Nuclear Program: Rubio

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington and Tehran are close to a deal, but he warned that progress is slowed by fractures in Iran’s leadership.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to testify before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 2, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—Iranian negotiators have shown increasing willingness to negotiate over aspects of their nation’s nuclear program, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators on June 2.

“For the first time, certainly in my memory, they have agreed to negotiate aspects of their nuclear program that just a month ago, or just a year ago, they were refusing to even mention, much less enter into discussions about,” Rubio said in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.