Marco Rubio

Well, I'm not going to disclose to you who those people are because it probably would get them in trouble with some other groups of people inside of Iran.

Look, there's some fractures going on there internally.

And at the end of the day, I think that if there are people in Iran who now, given everything that's happened, are willing to

to move in a different direction for their country, that would be great.

Imagine in Iran that instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran, you'd have a much different country.

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.