The U.S. wants to reach a deal with Iran to end the war but won¡¯t do so ¡°at any price,¡± U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday, as he reiterated that tolls in the Strait of Hormuz were unacceptable.
¡°You can call it a toll, you can call it a fee, whatever you want to call it ¡ª it¡¯s a game of semantics,¡± Rubio said Thursday in Bahrain, as he finished a whirlwind tour of the Persian Gulf. ¡°That will never be an acceptable condition of any deal.¡±
The top U.S. diplomat told a meeting of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council on Thursday that if Iran were to toll the strait there would be nothing stopping any other country near a waterway from following suit ¡°and then we¡¯re going to have chaos.¡±
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