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Hillary Clinton warns US in 'very weak position' with Iran, 'lost the leverage' in negotiations
By Hanna Panreck
Published April 13, 2026
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that the U.S. was in a weak position regarding negotiations with Iran.
"I worry that the United States is now in a very weak position vis-à-vis Iran, which should be the outlier, should be on the back foot and should be the one held to account," Clinton told MS NOW's "Morning Joe" on Monday.
Clinton told MS NOW that the U.S. would have to wipe the slate clean for negotiations with Iran and said they would "have to bring in people who actually know something about nuclear weapons."
Peace talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed over the weekend, with Vice President JD Vance departing Pakistan empty-handed.
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Hillary Clinton speaks to members of the media outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Chappaqua, N.Y., on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg)
"So we’re in a situation now where we are weak, where we essentially have lost the leverage and initiative that we had," Clinton added. "I supported Trump bombing the nuclear sites back in June. I thought that was an appropriate and limited strategic objective. I opposed his incoherent attack on Iran."
Clinton said the administration needed to get back to hard negotiations with the "right people at the table."
"And I also know from personal experience how [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has tried to get every American president to agree to have an open-ended war with Iran, because I had many, many long hourslong conversations with him and his war cabinet about this and refusing to go along with a very inchoate desire to do something to Iran that, you know, with no real end state that could be described as sufficiently," she said.
"So now here we are. I think you’ve got to get back into hard negotiations with the right people at the table who know what they are doing," Clinton added.
President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to blockade Iran's ports in the Strait of Hormuz beginning Monday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up to the media after exiting Air Force One at Miami International Airport. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
The U.S. began enforcing a blockade on Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz at 10 a.m. ET on Monday.
Trump ordered the blockade after peace talks with Tehran collapsed this weekend. A map of U.S. vessels in the region showed at least 17 ships deployed as of Monday morning.
U.S. Central Command announced plans to enforce the blockade earlier Monday in a notice to seafarers.
"Any vessel entering or departing the blockaded area without authorization is subject to interception, diversion, and capture," the note said.
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after stepping off Air Force One, Friday, March 27, 2026, at Miami International Airport in Miami. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
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"Hillary Clinton backed the disastrous, one-sided Obama nuclear agreement, which enabled the rogue Iranian regime to build up its capabilities to threaten our homeland, and her State Department refused necessary security personnel for United States facilities in Benghazi, which paved the way for terrorists to kill four Americans," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"Crooked Hillary is one of the worst and weakest foreign policy officials to ever disgrace the United States Government. Thankfully, Americans have a courageous leader in President Trump who is strong enough to fix the disaster that Clinton and her fellow Democrats created."
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