Column: White House takes its first diplomatic step toward Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Yet if Trump is truly interested in striking a nuclear accord with Tehran, concessions will be absolutely necessary.
42% : Sure, he boasts about the military option incessantly for the cameras, but Trump wouldn't be green-lighting negotiations in the first place if he viewed bombing as the most effective policy.
35% : The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose power perhaps exceeds the clerics' own, also remembers that time in January 2020 when Trump authorized the targeted killing of its top general, Qasem Soleimani, and this elite branch of the Iranian armed forces has never gotten over it.
33% : Trump, who campaigned on ending wars rather than starting new ones, prefers talking to bombing.
30% : It was only seven years ago when Trump pulled Washington out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the President Barack Obama-era nuclear deal that was supposed to pump some much-needed life into the Iranian economy in return for strict, verifiable limits on Tehran's nuclear work.

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