Iran Pledges to Give Nuclear Talks with U.S. a 'Genuine Chance'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) senior fellow Behnam Ben Taleblu told Fox News Digital that the disputes over direct vs. indirect talks are "the negotiations before the negotiations.
53% : We have a very big meeting, and we'll see what can happen," Trump said after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office.
41% : " Trump then made a surprise announcement Monday that U.S. and Iranian representatives would meet in Oman for the talks Tehran claimed it wasn't interested in having.
34% : Trump has assets in place for a bombing campaign against Iran's nuclear program, and the Israelis have demonstrated utter superiority over Iran's air defenses.
33% : Since Trump is sending his personal envoy Witkoff to the meeting, he seems unlikely to settle for passing messages through Oman's diplomats as they scurry from room to room, unless the result is productive.
28% : The U.S. and Iranian sides disagree about whether these talks will be "direct," as Trump insists.
11% : As for leverage, Ben Taleblu noted that Washington is running out of time in several respects - Iran is accumulating a dangerous stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium, and the "snapback sanctions" Trump triggered by withdrawing from the nuclear deal in 2018 are set to expire in 2025, putting the second Trump administration back to square one on sanctions.
6% : "Indirect" talks were held several times under the Biden administration and went nowhere despite Biden's palpable eagerness to resurrect former President Barack Obama's 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump withdrew from during his first term.

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