Iran has ‘open window’ to negotiate, but ‘clock is not on their side,’ Pete Hegseth says

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth discussed the prospect of negotiations with Iran.

“President Trump’s fortitude is unshakable, and his mission is crystal clear. President Trump said it again yesterday, we have all the time in the world, and we’re not anxious for a deal, and I hear him say it every day in private as well.

“Iran knows that they still have an open window to choose wisely, as we said previously, choose wisely at the negotiating table. All they have to do is abandon a nuclear weapon in meaningful and verifiable ways, or instead they can watch the regime’s fragile economic state collapse under the under unrelenting pressure of American power …”

“The choice is theirs, but with this blockade, the clock is not on their side.”