Rubio ‘kicked out’ Araghchi’s delegation from New York – Axios

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his delegation to leave New York on Monday after US-Iran negotiations stalled, Axios reported Wednesday, citing a US official and another source familiar with the matter.

“Secretary Rubio kicked out the Iranian delegation who had overstayed their welcome. The UN General Assembly was over, so it was time for them to go,” the US official told Axios.

The US mission to the United Nations informed Iran’s mission Monday evening that Araghchi’s delegation had to leave immediately, according to the report.

Araghchi and his delegation left for the airport several hours later and flew to Doha early Tuesday. A second source told Axios that Araghchi had already been scheduled to leave Monday night.

Axios reported that the White House had initially expected progress in talks Monday, but by late afternoon negotiations had reached a stalemate. Qatari mediators have continued efforts to bridge differences between Washington and Tehran.

VIA THE IRAN WATCHER:

Fed up with the Islamic Republic’s deceptive negotiating games, Marco Rubio told its delegation to get out of the United States.

Once the General Assembly ended, the regime’s United Nations cover expired with it. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered its delegation to leave after negotiations produced nothing.

The order was delivered after high-level General Assembly meetings concluded and Qatari mediation failed to break the deadlock. The delegation, led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, was told it had overstayed its welcome and left New York hours later.

The message was unmistakable. The United States fulfilled its host-country obligations, allowed a restricted delegation to attend the United Nations and tested whether negotiations could produce movement. Once the Islamic Republic refused to move, Rubio withdrew the diplomatic courtesy.

Iranian state media tried to present the departure as the conclusion of “intensive diplomatic consultations.” The reality was far more humiliating. The regime arrived seeking relief, failed to secure an agreement and was ordered out of the country.

This fits Rubio’s long-standing view of the Islamic Republic. In 2015, he warned that nuclear sanctions relief would finance missiles, conventional forces, terrorism and regional armed groups rather than improve Iranian lives. He argued that the regime would accept temporary nuclear restrictions, strengthen the machinery surrounding the program and later pursue greater protection from retaliation.

A decade later, Iran’s wealth has been spent on Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, Iraqi militias, missile development and nuclear infrastructure while Iranians endure inflation, failing services and deepening isolation. The regime used diplomacy to gain time and resources without abandoning the project that produced the confrontation.

Rubio’s conclusion appears unchanged. The Islamic Republic is an ideological system that treats negotiations as an instrument of survival, not a transformation of its objectives. Diplomatic access therefore cannot become an entitlement detached from results.

Ordering the delegation out did not end diplomacy. It established that access to the United States would not be extended indefinitely while the regime stalled, demanded relief and refused meaningful concessions.

The Islamic Republic came to the United States hoping to escape pressure. It left without a deal, without relief and without the privilege of remaining on American soil