Trump reaches out to Iran's supreme leader

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : "I'm not sure that everybody agrees with me, but we can make a deal that would be just as good as if you won militarily," Trump said.
45% : Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew the US from the JCPOA, leading Tehran to resume work on uranium enrichment and other components of its nuclear program that, according to US experts, in theory would allow Iran to manufacture nuclear weapons in a matter of weeks.
41% : " Trump said he reached out directly to Khamenei, saying "I hope you're going to negotiate because it's going to be a lot better for Iran, and I think they want to get that letter.
40% : "Negotiating with a government like the US government is not wise, intelligent or honorable," Khamenei said last month. Trump last month directed US government agencies to find ways to dial up economic pressure on Tehran. US sanctions against Iran are already at a maximum, and nothing short of a naval blockade could prevent the flow of Iranian crude to buyers in China through a well-established network of ships, traders and financial intermediaries that have been able to bypass US sanctions.
36% : "There are two ways Iran can be handled -- militarily, or you make a deal," Trump said in a televised interview released today.
36% : The ultimate goal in his diplomacy with Tehran is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Trump said.
34% : Trump has previously denounced former president Barack Obama's diplomacy with Iran but appears to now be following a similar path.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.