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Marco Rubio embarrasses himself - and America - on Iran

Lim Tean on Facebook 2026/06/24


The US Secretary of State has just told the world that IranrCOs foreign
policy is driven by rCLpure theologyrCY and that rCLno one has ever been
able to do a successful deal with Iran.rCY

Both claims are demonstrably false. Both reveal a man profoundly
unqualified for the office he holds.

Abbas Araghchi is one of the finest diplomatic minds operating in the
world today. A career diplomat of thirty years, he was the technical
architect of the JCPOA - mastering every clause, every verification
mechanism, every sanctions schedule across eighteen months of
gruelling negotiation with the worldrCOs major powers. He does not need briefing notes. He is the briefing note.

When Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner sit across the table from him to negotiate, the contrast is almost painful to witness. Here is a man
who has spent three decades studying the granular architecture of
nuclear nonproliferation, sanctions law, and regional security
arrangements - facing two real estate developers from New York who
cannot tell a centrifuge from a footnote.

Araghchi has every detail at his fingertips: the technical
specifications, the legal precedents, the diplomatic history, the red
lines and their rationale. His American counterparts are essentially improvising.

This is not negotiation. This is a doctoral examiner sitting down with
students who have not read the syllabus.
Iran has concluded deals - repeatedly. The 2015 JCPOA was negotiated
with five permanent Security Council members plus Germany. It was
verified by the IAEA. It worked. It was America that tore it up.

And then there is Rubio himself. Anyone who has watched him testify
before Congress will know exactly what I mean. What you witness is not statecraft. It is a man who has made a career of spouting propaganda
and ideological talking points - recycling neoconservative slogans in
place of analysis, substituting bluster for knowledge, and confusing belligerence with strength. He has never demonstrated a serious
understanding of IranrCOs political structure, its factional dynamics,
its strategic doctrine, or its negotiating history.
The words in that image are not merely wrong - they are terrifying in
what they reveal about the man now simultaneously occupying the
offices of Secretary of State and National Security Adviser. That such extraordinary concentration of foreign policy power should rest in
hands this ignorant is one of the most alarming facts about American
governance today.

What Rubio is actually revealing is not Iranian irrationality. He is
revealing WashingtonrCOs own incapacity - its inability to honour
commitments, sustain agreements, or treat adversaries as strategic
actors deserving of serious engagement.

The most dangerous diplomats are not the radical ones. They are the
ignorant ones - those who mistake their own ideological blinkers for geopolitical insight.

In my assessment, Rubio is the most ignorant and incompetent Secretary
of State the United States has produced since the Second World War.
That is not hyperbole. It is a considered judgment from someone who
has studied American foreign policy across eight decades.

The world deserves better. So, frankly, does America.
--

--
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Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
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On 6/26/2026 12:56 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:

Marco Rubio embarrasses himself - and America - on Iran

Lim Tean on Facebook 2026/06/24

The US Secretary of State has just told the world that IranrCOs foreign policy is driven by rCLpure theologyrCY and that rCLno one has ever been
able to do a successful deal with Iran.rCY

Both claims are demonstrably false. Both reveal a man profoundly
unqualified for the office he holds.

Abbas Araghchi is one of the finest diplomatic minds operating in the
world today. A career diplomat of thirty years, he was the technical architect of the JCPOA - mastering every clause, every verification mechanism, every sanctions schedule across eighteen months of
gruelling negotiation with the worldrCOs major powers. He does not need briefing notes. He is the briefing note.

When Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner sit across the table from him to negotiate, the contrast is almost painful to witness. Here is a man
who has spent three decades studying the granular architecture of
nuclear nonproliferation, sanctions law, and regional security
arrangements - facing two real estate developers from New York who
cannot tell a centrifuge from a footnote.

Araghchi has every detail at his fingertips: the technical
specifications, the legal precedents, the diplomatic history, the red
lines and their rationale. His American counterparts are essentially improvising.

This is not negotiation. This is a doctoral examiner sitting down with students who have not read the syllabus.
Iran has concluded deals - repeatedly. The 2015 JCPOA was negotiated
with five permanent Security Council members plus Germany. It was
verified by the IAEA. It worked. It was America that tore it up.

And then there is Rubio himself. Anyone who has watched him testify
before Congress will know exactly what I mean. What you witness is not statecraft. It is a man who has made a career of spouting propaganda
and ideological talking points - recycling neoconservative slogans in
place of analysis, substituting bluster for knowledge, and confusing belligerence with strength. He has never demonstrated a serious
understanding of IranrCOs political structure, its factional dynamics,
its strategic doctrine, or its negotiating history.
The words in that image are not merely wrong - they are terrifying in
what they reveal about the man now simultaneously occupying the
offices of Secretary of State and National Security Adviser. That such extraordinary concentration of foreign policy power should rest in
hands this ignorant is one of the most alarming facts about American governance today.

What Rubio is actually revealing is not Iranian irrationality. He is revealing WashingtonrCOs own incapacity - its inability to honour commitments, sustain agreements, or treat adversaries as strategic
actors deserving of serious engagement.

The most dangerous diplomats are not the radical ones. They are the
ignorant ones - those who mistake their own ideological blinkers for geopolitical insight.

In my assessment, Rubio is the most ignorant and incompetent Secretary
of State the United States has produced since the Second World War.
That is not hyperbole. It is a considered judgment from someone who
has studied American foreign policy across eight decades.

The world deserves better. So, frankly, does America.

One could try and make the case that Antony Blinken was at least as bad
a Secretary of State as Marco Rubio. Blinken went to Israel after the
October 7 breach of the prison wall surrounding Gaza by Hamas and
stated, "I come not as an American, but as a Jew." He went to Kiev and performed "Keep on Rocking in the Free World" with his own band made up
of State Department officials -- a song that portrays the United States
as a failed state full of junkies, meth heads, and crack addicts. But,
then again, Blinken wasn't as bad as Hillary Clinton, who oversaw the
Maidan Revolution in Ukraine.
--
"This is the first Quantum War, the observer effect is being expertly
used by both sides. Schr||dingerrCOs Strait is simultaneously open and
closed, it switches states depending on who is observing it and talking
about it. The War is over but it was never a war. The ceasefire holds in
spite of there being no cessation of fire. Freedom of navigation is
sacred and inviolable, thatrCOs why werCOre blockading the Gulf of Oman." posted by 'Chunk' on MoA blog.

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On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:33:41 -0600, A Senior Official <ASO@cocks.net>
wrote:

On 6/26/2026 12:56 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:

Marco Rubio embarrasses himself - and America - on Iran

Lim Tean on Facebook 2026/06/24

In my assessment, Rubio is the most ignorant and incompetent Secretary
of State the United States has produced since the Second World War.
That is not hyperbole. It is a considered judgment from someone who
has studied American foreign policy across eight decades.

The world deserves better. So, frankly, does America.

One could try and make the case that Antony Blinken was at least as bad
a Secretary of State as Marco Rubio. Blinken went to Israel after the >October 7 breach of the prison wall surrounding Gaza by Hamas and
stated, "I come not as an American, but as a Jew." He went to Kiev and >performed "Keep on Rocking in the Free World" with his own band made up
of State Department officials -- a song that portrays the United States
as a failed state full of junkies, meth heads, and crack addicts. But,
then again, Blinken wasn't as bad as Hillary Clinton, who oversaw the
Maidan Revolution in Ukraine.

As bad, maybe, or worse.

But Blinken's badness did not spring from the same degree of ignorance
and incompetence.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk --- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2