We’re looking forward to the negotiation. I think it’s going to be positive.

If the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith and extend an open hand, that’s one thing.

If they’re going to try to play us, they’re going to find that the negotiating team is not that receptive.

The President has given us some pretty clear guidelines, and we’ll see how it goes.

The attack on Lebanon might be deliberate sabotage — or an attempt to secure leverage before a comprehensive agreement — but it’s undermining the ceasefire.

Not only southern Beirut — nowhere is safe from Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

Both sides are pretending the ceasefire is real to try to make progress in Islamabad.

Ceasefires that work are the exception, not the rule. If attacks continue, it will fall apart at some point.

Under sustained Iranian pressure, the Zionist regime was forced to halt its attacks on Beirut.

Iran made the cessation of attacks a precondition for participating in talks on a temporary ceasefire.

Further negotiations are conditional on Israel not attacking Beirut and the Dahiyeh district.

Any renewed assault would cause the talks to be completely suspended.

The United States compelled the regime to stop its attacks on Beirut.

The Iranian delegation’s trip to Islamabad was postponed several times.

Continued Israeli strikes could nullify the negotiations altogether.

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest.

But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

Americans still weigh Iran on events that happened 40 years ago - but can’t understand why Iranians might not trust a U.S. president.

Trump left the nuclear deal, tried to negotiate again but bombed them.

The Trump administration likes to conduct diplomacy while shooting. This isn’t how you conduct diplomacy.