Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (L), UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper (2nd L), US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (3rd L), NATO Deputy General Secretary Radmila Shekerinska (4th L), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (5th L), and Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (6th L) attend the North Atlantic Council Foreign Ministers Session during the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting in Helsingborg, Sweden, on May 22, 2026. [Dursun Aydemir – Anadolu Agency]
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday there had been “some slight progress” regarding the situation involving Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, Anadolu reports.
“There’s been some slight progress, I don’t want to exaggerate it, but there’s been a little bit of movement, and that’s good,” Rubio told reporters ahead of a NATO foreign ministers meeting alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
Rubio said the “fundamentals remain the same,” adding: “Iran can never have nuclear weapons, it just cannot make them.”
He said Washington was awaiting the outcome of ongoing discussions related to Iran while underlining that issues surrounding uranium enrichment and Tehran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium would have to be addressed.
