When President Donald Trump joked at the G7 summit this week that Vice President JD Vance should “be careful” because he would be blaming him if the Iran deal “doesn’t work out,” some officials on stage joined in laughter.

Marco Rubio, normally a convivial hype man for the president, stared straight ahead with a somber expression. He didn’t even crack a smile.

The secretary of state seems to have positioned himself as far from the Iran deal as possible, raising questions among foreign policy analysts whether Rubio believes in the plan.

“Without being in the room, the only plausible explanations are either Rubio was sidelined by Trump, who went with Vance’s approach, or Rubio isn’t entirely comfortable defending the process and the ultimate deal that was struck,” Dennis Lennox, a Republican strategist, told the Washington Examiner.

He continued: “It’s inconceivable as someone who has watched Rubio over the years, even as he has adjusted his style and approach in the Trump era, to believe that he would abandon his long-standing positions and foreign policy worldview to be the proponent of this awful deal.”

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