US to Iran's Raisi: Seize opportunity for diplomacy now

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "We urge Iran to return to the negotiations soon so that we can seek to conclude our work," Price added during a regular briefing.
49% : Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only.
44% : "We hope that Iran seizes the opportunity now to advance diplomatic solutions," Price said.
42% : The US and its allies, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel have been in a simmering confrontation with Iran in the region.
40% : Multilateral talks in Vienna on renewing the ban on Iran gaining nuclear weapons were suspended on June 20 pending the outcome of Iran's national election which Raisi won.
36% : Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was gunned down by Israeli agents inside Iran in November 2020.
34% : The US, the United Kingdom and Israel have blamed Iran for an armed drone attack on an Israeli oil tanker, the Mercer Street, that killed two crew members in the Gulf of Oman last week.
34% : Since taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden and his team have sought to reduce tensions with Iran in the region and have sought its return to the 2015 nuclear ban.
31% : Israel has said it provided allies "hard evidence" that Iran was behind the attack on the tanker, without offering details.
31% : Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz has said Israel's military is ready to take action against Iran, calling it "a global and regional problem".
29% : After Trump withdrew from the 2015 deal and the US imposed new economic sanctions on Tehran in violation of the agreement, Iran began enriching uranium at higher concentrations.
25% : Iran has been negotiating with six leading powers to revive a deal abandoned unilaterally in 2018 by then-US President Donald Trump, who claimed the agreement was ineffective and adopted a hardline policy towards Tehran.

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