US pursues Iran nuclear deal in Rome talks while Israel holds to military option | | AW

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : "I'm not in a rush" to use the military option, Trump said on Thursday.
37% : " Trump, who ditched a 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and six powers during his first term in 2018 and reimposed crippling sanctions on Tehran, has revived his "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran since returning to the White House in January.
36% : Tehran, which has always said its nuclear programme is peaceful, says it is willing to negotiate some curbs in return for the lifting of sanctions, but wants watertight guarantees that Washington will not renege again as Trump did in 2018.
34% : The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Trump told Netanyahu in a White House meeting earlier this month that Washington wanted to prioritise diplomatic talks with Tehran and that he was unwilling to support a strike on the country's nuclear facilities in the short term.
28% : An Israeli official told Reuters Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months despite Trump telling Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the US was for now unwilling to support such a move.
26% : For his part, Trump told reporters on Friday: "I'm for stopping Iran, very simply, from having a nuclear weapon.

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