“I don’t think that a nuclear weapon is inevitable,” the secretary of state told the Council on Foreign Relations.

Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that there is still time to negotiate nuclear deal with Iran, despite the opinion of the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog.

Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Blinken said, “I don’t think that a nuclear weapon is inevitable,” and that “there is the prospect of negotiations” with the incoming Republican administration.