{"id":93108,"date":"2026-05-15T01:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rubio-trump-is-making-clear-to-iran-its-not-going-to-use-domestic-politics-to-pressure-him-into-a-bad-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:43:31","slug":"rubio-trump-is-making-clear-to-iran-its-not-going-to-use-domestic-politics-to-pressure-him-into-a-bad-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rubio-trump-is-making-clear-to-iran-its-not-going-to-use-domestic-politics-to-pressure-him-into-a-bad-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio: Trump Is Making Clear To Iran It&#8217;s Not Going To Use Domestic Politics To Pressure Him Into A Bad Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells NBC News&#8217; Tom Llamas that President Trump brought up Iran during the China summit and made the U.S. position clear on nuclear weapons.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TOM LLAMAS, NBC NEWS: As the president was leaving for China, did he make a mistake when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/12\/trump_on_iran_deal_i_dont_think_about_americans_financial_situation_i_think_about_iran_not_having_a_nuclear_weapon.html\">he told a reporter that America&#8217;s financial situation isn&#8217;t playing, quote, even a little bit of a role in his motivations to make a deal with Iran?<\/a>  SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: No, I think what the President is claiming is that Iran is not going to use that.  LLAMAS: Doesn&#8217;t that sound out of touch, though? I mean Americans are spending so much for gas.  RUBIO: Because, I think what the President is making clear is that we&#8217;re not going to let Iran use that as leverage. Think about what the Iranians are thinking. The Iranians and they watch this, remember, there&#8217;s no free press. There is no you in Iran, right? There is, there is no press in Iran that can criticize the regime or say, you know, create any pressure on them.   And I think what the President&#8217;s making clear is, if the Iranians think that they are going to use our domestic politics to pressure him into a bad deal. That&#8217;s not going to happen. We&#8217;ve taken extraordinary measures to keep gas prices lower than they are in some other parts of the world, and it will go down. Those straits will be open, and we will see those prices go down. And actually, I think you&#8217;re going to see a dramatic reduction in oil over time because all of that pent up oil that&#8217;s being held hostage by Iran. Once that reaches the marketplace, it&#8217;ll have a very positive impact. But I would also say there&#8217;s a price attached to a nuclear Iran. If Iran ever acquires a nuclear weapon, they will immediately. What would stop them from controlling the straits then? Forget about it being a three-month or a six-month problem. It could be a permanent one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/14\/marco_rubio_trump_is_making_clear_to_iran_its_not_going_to_use_domestic_politics_to_pressure_him_into_a_bad_deal.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells NBC News&#8217; Tom Llamas that President Trump brought up Iran during the China summit and made the U.S. position clear on nuclear weapons. TOM LLAMAS, NBC NEWS: As the president was leaving for China, did he make a mistake when he told a reporter that America&#8217;s financial situation isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1609,145,5835,296,62,261,489,1411,7829,3322,18374,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}