Such a deal would mean some partial, but not full, nuclear concessions by the Islamic Republic, in exchange for some partial, but not full, sanctions relief by the West.
Top Israeli officials have been sounding the alarm louder and more often (if still not as loud as they did against the 2015 JCPOA deal), which suggests they are worried about an agreement.
The US has been using Oman again as a go-between, a tactic which was crucial at various points for its reaching the JCPOA. But more importantly, there are reports that US and Iranian negotiators are talking with each other directly and repeatedly for the first time since the Trump administration pulled out of the JCPOA in 2018.
After all of that, the most critical indicator of all came on Sunday from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who, after years of lambasting both the Trump and Biden administrations, said, there is “nothing wrong” with cutting a deal with the West. READ MORE
