Antony Blinken: “The problem that we face now is exactly what you pointed to, the edicts promulgated by the Taliban, preventing women…”

I can't go into the details of our conversations today except to say that our Egyptian counterparts were in communication with Hamas as early, as recently as a few hours ago.

Where we are our now is not in a good place. What we've seen in the last weeks and months is Iran is actually moving forward with this program.

The response we got was unfortunately not the yes that we were looking for. A yes that virtually the entire world has given.

Today, Secretary Blinken said that, now, they mostly want to see is 'people being able to return their homes.'