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US energy secretary says talks with Iranians over Strait of Hormuz are ‘going well’
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US Energy Secretary Chris Wright listens as US President Donald Trump meets with Argentina's President Javier Milei in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, October 14, 2025. (AP/ Alex Brandon)
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the United States “is not too far away from a deal” with the Iranians.
“There are negotiations with the Iranians going on, despite what you hear in the chatter in public, I think those are actually going well,” Wright says on “Fox News Sunday.”
Wright says Trump is “a creative negotiator” who uses “pressure in different ways, uses uncertainty in different ways.”
“I think we’ll have a nice end of this conflict,” Wright predicts, adding that restarting shipping “will take time but probably not too much time” once the Strait of Hormuz is reopened — a key flashpoint in negotiations.
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