As previously reported by AFN, several analysts have voiced their opinions that continuing to negotiate with Iran is a waste of time because the radical regime will never abide by any agreement.
Still President Donald Trump is hopeful that the U.S. will strike a deal to avoid military action.
So, he will dispatch Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff to Istanbul to meet with Iran's foreign minister later this week.
Foreign ministers from Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have also been invited to attend the talks, if they happen, according to a regional official who spoke on condition of anonymity as they did not have permission to speak to journalists.
Gary Bauer is chairman of The Campaign for Working Families who has served on the board of Christians United for Israel. He says we should trust the president.
"What he has done around the world is unmatchable by any imaginable president. I'm just tired of the carping and the second guessing. ‘Well, we said this why did he do that?’ Just trust the man to do the best thing for our country. He hasn't let us down yet. "
But Bauer says what government would replace the Islamic tyrants with is complicated.
“What do you do if somehow you knock off all the mullahs, and they're gone now. So, what's next? Many people in the streets aren't going to want a king back. There'll be other people in the streets that would want to complete democracy. So, it's just complicated. It doesn't lend itself to easy solutions."
Mike Pompeo, a hard-liner on Iran who served as CIA director and secretary of state in Trump's first term, said it was “unimaginable that there can be a deal.”
“I think they may come away with some set of understandings,” Pompeo said at Dubai's World Governments Summit. "But to think that there’s a long-term solution that actually provides stability and peace to this region while the ayatollah is still in power is something I pray for but find unimaginable.”
