Elon Musk met with Iran's ambassador to the U.N. to 'discuss ways to defuse tensions'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : The Justice Department recently disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill the President-elect, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before the election with planning the assassination of Trump.
29% : Shakeri told the FBI that a contact in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed him this past September to set aside other work he was doing and assemble a plan within seven days to surveil and ultimately kill Trump, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan.
28% : In turn, Trump has become the target of Iranian hostilities.
23% : Investigators were told of the plan to kill Trump by Farhad Shakeri, an accused Iranian government asset who spent time in American prisons for robbery and who authorities say maintains a network of criminal associates enlisted by Tehran for surveillance and murder-for-hire plots.
15% : During his first term in office, Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear accord between Iran and other world powers, calling it "a horrible one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made.

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