Rubio showed the Iranian delegation the door, Tehran says they were leaving anyway

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday demanded that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his UN delegation leave immediately after talks broke down, the AP reported, citing two American officials. The negotiations were supposed to cover the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, ending the war and Iran's nuclear program—if the story had a sequel, but it doesn't.

Iran's UN mission, however, denies that they were sent away: https://www.axios.com/2026/10/01/rubio-iran-unga-delegation-kicked-out the Monday evening departure had already been communicated to the U.S. State Department on September 17, and according to the American account, Araghchi and his team left in the early hours of Tuesday; so the dispute is over whether Rubio sped up their departure or whether a pre-arranged trip home was being sold as a diplomatic show of force. Diplomacy, for now, stands at the point where instead of an agreement, the back-and-forth is about who kicked out whom, and who was leaving of their own accord anyway. In the Washington version, Rubio restored order; in the Tehran version, after the negotiating failure, the Americans are trying to sell even the airport transfer as a political victory. Ending the war would require somewhat more than that, but it would be foolish to expect that from DumpTrump.

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