The United States is open to sitting down for a meeting with Iran at the United Nations, US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said. No such meeting has been scheduled yet, however.
Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday (September 22) that Rubio said in an interview with NBC News that the United States was ready to meet Iran if there was a prospect of a positive result.
“We’re open to it. I don’t think any such meeting has been scheduled at this moment. But we’re certainly prepared for a meeting like that,” Rubio said in an interview on the Today show.
He said: “Particularly if there’s a prospect of achieving something positive through it, and of ultimately achieving the goal we’re working towards.”
Rubio said the central American aim was that Iran should never be able to obtain a nuclear weapon.
“And that’s the heart of this whole thing. Iran can never get a nuclear weapon. They cannot do that under any circumstances,” the US secretary of state said.