US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that Washington remains open to diplomacy with Iran, after earlier suggesting there “may not be a nuclear agreement” with the current government.
“We are always open for a deal,” Wright told CBS’s Face the Nation, saying President Donald Trump preferred a negotiated settlement over military action unless “absolutely necessary.”
But Wright said the US military’s “biggest role” in the region was stopping Iranian oil and other energy exports.
“We are strangling their economy to try to bring either a change in policy from the existing regime or a new regime,” he said, adding that Tehran’s current strategy was “slowly failing.”
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