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Rubio tells senators Iran gets no sanctions relief for reopening Hormuz

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Washington, D.C., United States

Testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the first time since the war began, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran would not get sanctions relief for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and that any relief would be conditions-based, and that Iran had agreed to negotiate parts of its nuclear programme it previously refused to discuss. He said Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was alive and 'increasingly engaging'.

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Al Jazeera's correspondent called it the clearest statement yet of U.S. demands: reopen Hormuz and give up enriched uranium, with sanctions relief and unfrozen funds not part of the talks.

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