Marco Rubio

So we are always hopeful that that would exist over there.

It's unfortunate.

The people of Iran are incredible people.

The people who lead them, this clerical regime, that is the problem.

And if there are new people now in charge,

who have a more reasonable vision of the future, that would be good news for us, for them, for the entire world.

But we also have to be prepared for the possibility, maybe even the probability, that that is not the case.

Well, what I mean is, you have people that are saying some of the right things privately.

Obviously, they're not going to put it out in press releases and what they say to you or put out there for the world doesn't necessarily reflect what they're saying in our conversations.

But at the end of the day, we have to see if these people end up being the ones in charge, seeing if they're the ones that have the power to deliver.

We're going to test it.

We are hopeful that that's the case.

There are clearly people there talking to us in ways that previous people in charge in Iran have not spoken to us in the past.

Some of the things they're willing to do, some of the things they're saying they're willing to do.

Obviously, they have to go do it.

We're going to test that proposition very strongly because we always prefer to settle things through negotiation and diplomacy.

But we also have to be prepared for the fact that that effort might fail, that we are dealing with a 47-year-old regime that still has a lot of people involved in it who aren't necessarily big fans of diplomacy or peace.

What's that?

I'm sorry.

Well, the war is this operation.