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 — 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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