Iran Nuclear Talks Are Running Into Red Lines

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : But that weakness in itself makes it harder for Iran to surrender all vestiges of its nuclear program, a prestige program that has swallowed years of attention and vast amounts of government investment, Vaez said.
39% : "Since Trump left office, Europe has moved to the right of the United States on Iran," Ben Taleblu said.
34% : "Trump can't afford to have that.
33% : That letter, and the congressional pressure, "allows Trump to benefit from a 'bad cop' in the Iranian nuclear talks," said Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
25% : On May 14, more than 200 lawmakers in both chambers of Congress sent Trump a letter urging him against any deal that would allow Iran to retain uranium enrichment capability, which the lawmakers saw as the fatal flaw of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that the Obama administration inked with Tehran in 2015.
23% : But a deal that allowed Iran to enrich small quantities of uranium to the low levels needed for civilian reactors while getting rid of its highly enriched uranium and opening the country to regular inspections by international nuclear authorities would look a lot like the Obama-era deal that Trump and other Republicans have spent a decade excoriating; Trump withdrew the United States from the JCPOA in 2018.
22% : Trump has previously warned Iran that if it does not make a deal, it could face a military strike with "violence like people haven't seen before.
16% : "If all that comes out is a JCPOA 2.0, the Iranians would say, 'We forced Trump to go back into the same deal,'" Ben Taleblu said.

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