Rubio: US unsure if Iranian leaders negotiating will end up in charge

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that it’s unclear whether the group the United States is currently negotiating with in Iran will ultimately end up being in charge once the war is done.

Rubio’s comments came after President Donald Trump proclaimed on Monday morning that the U.S. is negotiating with “A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME.”

Neither Trump nor Rubio specified exactly who is included on the Iranian negotiating side. Whomever they’re speaking with, however, is “saying some of the right things privately,” Rubio said in an interview with Good Morning America, while the president said, “Great progress has been made.”

Even with the progress, no one yet knows who will emerge as Iran’s next leader. There have been no public sightings of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei since he was selected to be the next supreme leader, following the assassination of his father, Ali Khamenei, who had led the country