He said that like most people he knew, he had no inclination to rise up against Iran’s leaders. “But if they talk to Trump and things will get better, I think that will be great and many people will be happy,” he said. For the sake of Iranians, to save us from this bad situation, our leaders should sit down with Trump and solve the old disputes between our countries.”The list of those disputes is long. Not only is there a lot of old bad blood, he said, President Trump also has set different conditions for Iran than he did for North Korea. “Why should we sit down with him under such conditions?”Iranian officials are also wary of Mr. Trump’s mercurial nature.

Source: New York Times June 13, 2018 18:06 UTC