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.
Rubio said there is the possibility that Washington and Tehran can reach an agreement in the coming days, though he warned that progress is slowed by a fractured Iranian leadership and their reliance on intermediaries to relay communications….