Rubio orders Iranian delegation to immediately leave the U.S. as negotiations stall

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered Iran's delegation to the UN General Assembly, including Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to leave the United States immediately after talks between Washington and Tehran stalled on September 28, Axios reported, citing a U.S. official and a second source.

Qatari mediators had tried to broker a breakthrough but neither side would budge; the Iranian delegation departed for the airport hours later and flew from New York to Doha at 1:20 a.m. A second source noted Araghchi was already scheduled to head back to Tehran that night regardless.

The episode follows Trump's rejection of an Iranian proposal for a seven-day truce involving the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. officials say Trump has privately told advisers he expects strikes on Iran to resume after the November midterms. The Pentagon has estimated the conflict has already cost roughly $38 billion in its first five months, with costs projected to grow by $2 billion to $3 billion monthly.

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Kicking a delegation out the morning after the party is one way to signal talks are dead, though it works just as well when the flight was already booked. Either way, a stalemate dressed up as an eviction notice is still just a stalemate. Meanwhile the running tab on this standoff keeps climbing by the billion, and nobody at the podium seems in a hurry to explain who's paying it off.

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