Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens as President Donald Trump speaks at an event with renderings labeled as a “Trump Class” ship for the Navy at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 22, 2025. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By EDWARD WONG & MICHAEL CROWLEY The Trump administration’s diplomacy with Iran to avert a war appeared to be on a near-certain path to failure even before it reached a critical point last week. The giveaway came in a fiery phrase that Secretary of State Marco Rubio…
