Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting in Helsingborg, Sweden, Friday. Photo by Johan Nilsson/EPA
May 22 (UPI) -- The United States and Iran implied Friday that there was progress in peace talks but Tehran's uranium and tolls for the Strait of Hormuz were sticking points.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there were signs that negotiations were improving. He spoke with NATO General-Secretary Mark Rutte at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Helsingborg, Sweden.
"I don't want to exaggerate it, but there's been a little bit of movement, and that's good," Rubio said. "The fundamentals remain the same: Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. It just cannot. This regime can never have nuclear weapons, and to achieve that, we're going to have to address the issue of enrichment. We're going to have to address the issue of the highly enriched uranium."
"Iran is trying to create a tolling system [in the Strait of Hormuz]," Rubio added. "There is not a country in the world that should accept that."
