Public sentiment towards the Iran nuclear talks is predominantly negative, highlighting deep skepticism and distrust, particularly towards the U.S. government's historical actions and current negotiating stance. Many commenters feel that negotiations are futile and worry about external influences from Israel and the nature of U.S. intentions, leading to a general sentiment of hopelessness regarding any productive outcomes.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel unleashed airstrikes across Iran for a third day on Sunday and threatened even greater force as some Iranian missiles evaded Israeli air defenses to strike buildings in the heart of the country. Planned talks on Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, which could provide an off-ramp, were canceled.

The region braced for a protracted conflict after Israel’s surprise bombardment of Iran’s nuclear and military sites on Friday killed several top generals and nuclear scientists. Neither side showed any sign of backing down. Iran said Israel struck two oil refineries, raising the prospect of a broader assault on Iran’s heavily sanctioned energy industry that could affect global markets.

The Israeli military, in a social media post, warned Iranians to evacuate arms factories, signaling a further widening of the campaign.

AndroidOne1

Half the people that supposed to be in those talks have been eliminated and you thought they was still trying to come to the table and talk?

ITSHOBBSMA

I know that it's hard because Iran has cut internet, and both Israel and Iran try to keep news about strike locations quiet for security, but what sites are you guys using for information?

Bandlebridge

Tough situation. Israel seems to have the upper hand with air superiority, controlling the skies over Iran, which gives them a strategic edge in this conflict.

Big_Introduction1952

Its insane how the content on reddit would make you think this is an even fight right now. Israel is absolutely decimating Iran.

rJaxon

It’s weird to say, but the end result of this might be as close to “peace in the Middle East” as we’ve been for a very long time (ever?).

Most of the aggressors will have been neutered and their allies and proxies either decapitated or just plain scared shitless.

Open and secret supporters of Iran and its goals are fucked up and scared right now.

iwastoolate

With Israel having air control over Iran , why haven't they identified where they are launching all these missiles from and taken them out?

Unasked_for_advice

Trump really about to be the president who let WWIII happen.

SamL214

Let’s be honest… someone had to do it.

Ivanov_94

KorlsDoop

Meanwhile "Protector of Israel" according to the rumors fled the country.

oshaboy

Is this the trade deal that Trump was yapping about?

breezersletje

I was hoping Trump would go to Iran in person to hold the meeting lol

nelly2929

It’s crazy because I was in Türkiye about two months ago and they were doing flights to Istanbul and Tehran. At the time, Istanbul was probably gonna be cancelled or delayed because there were protests at the time. Now, their (the airport I flew to) flights are gonna be pretty limited.

Trishyangel123

I hope the Iranian government is crippled after this and the people of Iran can become free once again

nukacola12

Based on the typical weather patterns in that region, if either or both launch nukes, it will cause enormous collateral damage across at least 12 countries, from North Africa to India and eastern Asia. Imagine the worldwide disruptions to food and materials. Western countries would not want to import contaminated products either.

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Probably not given the circumstances, but it may not have mattered longterm anyway.

Interesting-Gear-392


Attacking them is worthless and there should be a no sanction approach cause Iran has suffered a lot of betrayal from US and US-Israel backed proxies like ISIS, Al Qaeda and Iraqi militias has caused grave harm to them. US funded an 8 year war to destabilize Iran but it made the regime stronger than ever.

Iran always said they don’t want nukes, they enriched to 60% because they want the US to lay back on sanctions as a negotiating tactic.

Iran didn’t backstab and kill Israeli or American generals and chiefs or scientists.

Israel did that, US did that. Trump killed Qasem soleimani when he came to Baghdad for negotiations. Why did he do that? How can you expect countries to negotiate when US deals in bad faith. Just currently, America’s rogue dog couldn’t keep his leash on and attacked Iran UNPROVOKED when there was negotiations on Sunday in Oman. Israel killed 80+ Civilians the first strike, killed members of Leadership without any goddamn reason.

If I were the leader of Iran I’d have built that bomb and I’d have told America to go fuck off. And this is coming from an American.

Just right now, there’s B2-Bomber spotted in Israel. So imagine you’re entering Iran territory with your stealth fighter to bomb the shit out of their facilities. America has no right to do that.

Diplomacy was always going strong until Trump did crazy shit.

I REPEAT, If Pakistan could have Nukes, IRAN COULD ALSO GET NUKES IF THEY WANTED. BUT THEY DONT. It’s against “SHIA Islamic” belief system. Khamenei needs to give out a Fatwa in order for them to build it as they consider nukes as Destroyer of human race and its “Haram”

sabotroned

I guess it depends on if you believe Iran was going to follow their side of things.

revengeappendage

Layer7Admin

Iran wasn't doing their part anyway which means the whole agreement was pointless anyways.

[Atomic watchdog says Iran not complying with nuclear safeguards](https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164291)

[Lack of cooperation from Iran hampers nuclear checks, says atomic energy watchdog](https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164166) 

The point is they were never playing by the rules. If they agreed it was all lip service.

GreatSoulLord

Yes it was a good move to leave the deal.

&gt;The deal included robust and unprecedented inspection and verification measures by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to ensure Iran's compliance, granting inspectors access to declared nuclear facilities, the supply chain, and potentially undeclared sites.

In the words of Joe Biden... come on man. Calling the inspections "robust" is ludicrous. They had to notify Iran weeks (24 days) ahead of time, and they couldn't go to sites Iran said were "non-nuclear". Those provisions made the inspections totally worthless.

Most importantly, the deal allowed Iran to build the expertise and knowledge base it needed to eventually make weapons. This is something that can't be mitigated with inspections.

&gt;2. If you felt the deal wasn't good enough, was something better than nothing?

No, absolutely not. What we have now is better - a crippled Iran that's on the brink of collapse.

Inumnient

&gt;with some estimates suggesting it has enough highly enriched uranium to produce multiple nuclear explosive devices

Where are these estimates and by who exactly?

NoVacancyHI

You mention as a “key provision” that the deal included monitoring by the IAEA, but we handicapped them so heavily they may as well not have bothered going to Iran anyways. 

We ended up conceding on “anywhere, anytime” access for IAEA and being restricted to “declared” nuclear sites, with Iran having right of refusal for other sites. 

Without anywhere anytime access, there was no reason to even make the deal. Of course the IAEA was going to certify Iran’s compliance, as Iran would just not declare the actual enrichment sites and comply at the declared enrichment sites. We basically gave sanctions breaks and got nothing in return.

jayzfanacc

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The heart of the problem is that the agreement needed to be a treaty, but such a treaty would never have been ratified by the Senate.  

That was a severe constitutional defect.  The executive branch can negotiate treaties, it cannot enter into them unilaterally.  

I also think it was remarkably foolish given just how unpopular the treaty would have been with congress and how few votes it would have garnered in the Senate.  

You seem to have also asked about the content of the agreement, whether that seemed beneficial for the US in general, unrelated to problems with the constitutional process.  

My opinion is it seemed fine.  Any nation with a functional nuclear energy industry also has a functional pipeline to nuclear bomb production.  It's almost like how any country which can make chemical fertilizer can also make mustard gas.  Same physics and same chemistry, respectfully.  The only realistic goal was to get Iran on board with having the capability but not exercising it, the way Japan, Italy, South Korea, and many other countries have the capability but do not exercise it.  The agreement seemed like a rational path towards that end, and, in hindsight, it's really a huge mistake that we didn't give it a shot.  

But, again, the severe constitutional flaws I think doomed it regardless of how good an idea it might have been.

rcglinsk

We gave them cash and they funded terrorist. A lesson I've learned in life is to not deal with immoral people. 

random_guy00214

You would have to be pretty naive and gullible to believe that Iran was going to abide by any of it.

worldisbraindead

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

msemen_DZ

If it's anything like his "talks" with North Korea and the Taliban, he's going to give Iran an ICBM in exchange for Iran saying something nice about him on Twitter.

Crazy-Nights

After years of internal discussions it was determined the best course of dealing with Iran's nuclear program was diplomatic.

Trump got rid of this deal in 2016 because he thought it was stupid.

In 2024 after years of internal discussion it was determined the best course of dealing with Iran’s nuclear program was diplomatic.

This level of utter incompetence would be funny if the subject wasn’t so serious. 

epicredditdude1

They already had a nuclear peace deal in place right up until Trump pulled out of it during his first term lol

Jorgen_Pakieto

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible." - a very stable genius

CommieOfLove

Didn't he attack Obama and Biden for talking with Iran? 

He wants to talk to them about permitting McDonalds franchises... A topic very close to his heart.

Not-User-Serviceable

He’ll sign the same deal they had when took office and take all the credit as he usually does

moutonbleu

What exactly are "low-level" nuclear talks?

CodeMonkeyX

And this time we don't have to do it in the bathroom at my pool house

The_Kert

Why would Iran make a deal with the same guy who destroyed the last deal they made with this country? 

No world leader will trust him to follow through on any deal that could be made. 

The bottom line is that Trump’s mishandling of this last time allowed Iran to resume building nuclear weapons. And now we have to live with that.

Gr8daze

Ali Hosseini Khamenei: President Trump, we admire you. You are so smart and have nice hair, kind of looks like Elvis.

Trump: You're my friend. Here, have some nukes!

bowens44

Does musk know his secretary is trying to schedule?

shorthanded

I guess Tehran's finally getting a Trump hotel.

migidymike

Well, he promised us a better deal  than the Jcpoa I am still waiting.

OldWar6125

Got to sell all those documents somewhere, what was the point in stealing them otherwise?

MurderBeans

Let me guess, the deal will look exactly like the one that the Obama team negotiated that trump cancelled. And the magoo crowd will go wild.

_jump_yossarian

Maybe he can send Musk to hold high level talks in Iraq?

Deguilded

Hopefully, the talks are in Iran so they can keep the old fat orange bastard.

ricoxoxo

Didn’t he have a drone murder one of their leaders during a peaceful meeting?

I really don’t see Iran trusting Trump …

Another art of the deal special incoming.

Let me guess...he's gonna give them a nuke in exchange for agreeing not to build a nuke?

AnomalyNexus

He had their beloved general killed. No way they negotiate with him.

Guilty-Top-7

WhatD0thLife

I bet he has his quick release groinal pants on, antisapating great things from this meating. Elon can be his fluffer.

Fuckmepotato

Iran should check with Elmo and make sure that this is what he wants.

TheRensh

Ok, I'll give you nukes if you promise to let me build Trump tower Iran. It will be the bigliest  .

FarmerArjer

LOL the country that’s trying to take Trump out. Good luck.

rdldr1

Perfect idea. Let’s invade Mexico, piss off Canada, then cozy up to Iran

This man is a fucking imbecile

CallMeLazarus23

Wait didn't Iran try to assassinate him? Well I guess he is coming for round 2

PrinnyFriend

If Trump makes a deal with Iran which just tried to MURDER HIM, to replace the deal with Iran that he withdrew from because Obama embarrassed him that one time, then I am just gonna wonder if the world is real or if I suffered a stroke and am actually unconscious in a hospital bed somewhere.

Cause that would be some fucking insane level shit right there. Just how much did Iran offer to pay him???

shady8x

Great, Trump is so bad at negotiation that this will end up being the US offering Iran nukes, so they reopen a US embassy n Tehran with his name on the building.

The only high level talking this guy can do is if he’s wearing plateau shoes

AdTiny2166

Trump can barely form a coherent sentence. It would be funny to watch him stumble his way through such a talk.

SwampTerror

Things won’t actually happen for 1000 Alex!

CalibratedRat

Who would negotiate with a man who can’t keep his word.  It’s pointless.

He is straight up going to arm the bad guys isn’t he.

lukaskywalker

does anyone think Trump can high-level anything?

omnesilere

longgamma

secretBuffetHero

He has boxes of things he’s willing to share with them..for a price.

Liberals mad that we have a strong leader in charge.

InhaleMyOwnFarts

tonyislost

foundmonster

They shouldn't bother.  The US can't be trusted at all going forward.

First_manatee_614

Cobra-Serpentress

AkiStudios1

Israel probably has a surplus of pagers and gin🍸🤷🏼‍♀️

GarbonzoBeanSprout

The fact that the proxy groups have been entirely useless (save for some houthi activity) seems like a change, also Syria being off the field.

SyntaxDissonance4

Larger excerpt the title was taken from
&gt;“They might not be able to send this much or regularly – more stuff might get intercepted – but if you’re the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force right now, what you’re trying to show is ‘we still exist, we’re intact, nothing has changed.’”

Title is a bit misleading, a lot has changed, they are just trying to save face to their respective populaces that they still are in control. 

Hezbollah is crippled in Lebanon, Assad deposed in Syria, and the 50 year cold war between Iran and Israel is now hot, the taboo on directly attacking each others nations is broken, and Iranian airspace is seemingly completely open against follow up attacks at Israel's discretion.  For people just reading the title and thinking we are back to status quo, no, the calculus in the middle east has definitely shifted.

No-Space937

I pet they’re projecting all this “power” because they’re scared they’re about to be the next Syria.

PeaceJoy4EVER

- "Pro-Peace ticket"


- gets us into a war


- "Only the left can lack critical thinking skills this badly"

Leckloast

The thing to always remember about Trump voters is that they fundamentally do not have policies.  They do not care about being hypocrites.  They cannot actually be reasoned with, because none of them are really motivated by reason.

They hate people.  They hate a lot of people, and they want to be validated in their hatred, and they want to feel safe and stronger than the people they hate, and everything else - every principle, every policy, every moral - is secondary to that.  They talk a big game, but literally none of it means anything.  They follow their leader so they can hate who they want, who he enables them to hate.

So of course they don't care about egg prices, and they don't care about immigration, and they never ever cared about being pro-peace.  It's all lip service.  They never meant any of it.  And I am so, so fucking tired of it.

JokerDeSilva10

I remember when Trunp canceled the deal with Iran, that limited nuclear capabilities and allowed for checks.

Now he's bombing them to prevent the very thing he cancelled.

Art

Of

The

Deal.

McDaddy-O

\&gt;These are peaceful manly bombs!

I know it’s in jest but, yeah new flare.

Elegant_Plate6640

&gt;Was there any indication Kamala wouldn’t do the same?

she doesn't have a brain that is mostly syphillis.

seriously, he tried to do this his first term and they just blew it off because nothing came of it.

angry_cucumber

\&gt;There is a big difference between being peaceful and being a pussy. Don't be the latter

  
The world peace is in hands of dipshits that think bombing places as a dick measuring contest

marianitten

God, nothing rattles my cage more than the "how could you wish hate on anyone?" crowd.


Like yeah, actually some people are actively ruining the planet I live on and are working their hardest to have mine and my friends lives ruined.


I do hate them.


I have good reason to hate them.


Doesnt mean i spend all my time obsessing over them or attack on sight like an NPC.


But i hate them.

Busterthefatman

The projection/deflection machine out in full force today it seems

After-Bumblebee

I'm sorry, but *even* if Harris did this, which I don't think she would have given the track record of Obama and Biden, yeah I would still be more comfortable than right now because I know there would be a Secretary of Defence who isn't a drunk, a Director of National Intelligence who wasn't publicly disagreeing with the President, a Secretary of State who's also the National Security Advisor, a Secretary of the Treasury who wasn't also trying to negotiate 90 trade deals at the same time, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who isn't the most unqualified Chairman in history, a Secretary of Homeland Security who isn't arresting democratic politicians, an FBI director who isn't... KASH PATEL..., a Attorney General who doesn't direct the DOJ to deport random people to El Salvador, and a civil service and national security apparatus fit and able to prosecute a war and defend the nation.

You don't have that right now! Forget the merits of the war for a second and think who's in charge of running it!

Justausername1234

“Why isn’t Kamala standing up against this?”

Maybe because she got a resounding answer from a majority of the country that they didn’t want her involved?

GGunner723

"Why doesn't Kamala speak up?"

Women / Democrats can't get a break, can they? Somehow it's now Kamala's responsibility to rein in the warmonger-in-chief. So is that the checks and balances I keep hearing about? Republicans will oppress and it's the Democrats job to stop them?

asiangontear

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