Trump offers nuclear talks with Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump's brash billionaire confidant Elon Musk was reported to have met Iran's ambassador to the United Nations shortly after the election to deliver a message that Trump wants calm and diplomacy.
54% : Speaking on the sidelines of an Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Jeddah, Araghchi also warned that Iran's nuclear program "cannot be destroyed through military operations.
46% : " A landmark 2015 deal negotiated under former president Barack Obama -- known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- imposed curbs on Iran's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief.
35% : Trump said he wrote a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei telling him that a negotiated solution "will be a lot better for Iran.
32% : Trump, who returned to the White House in January, said he was reinstating his "maximum pressure" policy of sanctions against Iran but that he was doing so only reluctantly.
30% : It fell apart after Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2018 in his first presidential term and reimposed sweeping sanctions.
25% : He has since sidelined officials from his first term associated with his Iran policy, as Trump accuses Washington's foreign policy establishment of encouraging war.
21% : " "I've written them a letter, saying I hope you're going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily it's going to be a terrible thing for them," Trump told Fox Business in a clip broadcast Friday.

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