Vice President JD Vance told Reuters the US wants a meaningful cut in Iran's uranium enrichment capacity as part of a deal to end the war, which analysts read as a possible softening of the earlier demand that Iran abandon enrichment entirely. Secretary of State Rubio said in Athens that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and claimed Iran had lost complete control of the Strait of Hormuz; President Trump said the war would end the nice way or the not-so-nice way. On October 6 President Pezeshkian called negotiations with Washington futile.