Rubio Calls for Talks a Day After Bombing Iran

Just a day after U.S. airstrikes hit Iranian nuclear sites, Donald Trump took to social media to declare, “Now is the time for peace!” — a message that, in Tehran, raised more eyebrows than hope. For many Iranian officials, the sudden shift in tone sounds less like diplomacy and more like panic from a White House trying to hit the brakes on a war it just started.

“They bombed us, then asked for peace — who does that?” one Iranian analyst said. After years of failed talks, sanctions, and assassinations, Tehran sees no reason to trust Washington’s words, especially when they follow fresh explosions. To many in Iran, Trump’s post reads not as a peace offering, but as a nervous reaction to the consequences of his own decisions.