Inside the Iran Negotiations & Britain’s Sudden Leadership Crisis | 6.23.26

55.314 - 62.623 Georgia Howe

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, June 23rd, and this is Morning Wire.

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190.686 - 191.487 Tim Rice

Thanks for having me, guys.

191.828 - 199.159 Georgia Howe

So let's start with the latest on the Iran talks, the vice president sounding pretty confident that they are making progress. Where do things stand now?

199.527 - 217.65 Tim Rice

Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much most of what we know, Georgia, is the vice president and the White House are incredibly confident coming out of these negotiations. Things got off to a rough start over the weekend when the vice president landed in Switzerland. There were some reports that the Qataris had snubbed the American delegation or maybe the Iranians were backing out.

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All sorts of nonsense about a photo op. Would they or won't they? In terms of the things that actually matter, the deal that they're hammering out, it seems like the best way to put it, I think, is that... We seem to be negotiating with Tehran. So the United States has relieved a lot of sanctions.

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One of the most notable ones that we heard about yesterday was that they not just lifted sanctions on Iranian oil exports, but they've authorized the sale of Iranian origin petroleum and petrochemical products across the world, including in the United States. Now, the United States has not purchased Iranian-made oil and gas products since 1979.

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They are, if not directly engaged in negotiations, they have been appraised of them and are clearly supportive of us brokering this deal. So not that many, I don't expect to see too many surprises in terms of what the leaders that Rubio meets with have to say, but I'm interested in the message that Rubio brings out because my suspicion is that

417.468 - 435.738 Tim Rice

Keeping Rubio off the table allowed the White House and the Trump administration to keep him a little bit more flexible for this next stage of the negotiations, right? You have Vance out in Switzerland. He's a little bit of a good cop. You have Trump in D.C. telling Iran that they're going to regret whenever they kind of start mouthing off or put out these fiery statements.

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You're going to regret this. You won't have a country anymore if you reclose the Strait of Hormuz, the president said. So, you know, You get this good cop, bad cop thing. You get through the first stages of the 60-day ceasefire and you get through the opening of the negotiations. And then look who's back, clean as a whistle, Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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So I think that what we hear from Rubio is really going to signal where the administration wants to go with this next and really the president's vision for the future, not just of American relations with Iran, but his future for the vision of the entire Middle East.

466.226 - 467.468 Georgia Howe

Tim, thanks so much for reporting.