Bolton: Trump’s readiness to talk with Iran doesn’t mean shift in stance

US President Donald Trump’s willingness to hold direct talks with Iran doesn’t mean there is any change in his administration’s stance toward the Islamic Republic, his National Security Adviser John Bolton said.

“Talking with them [Iran] does not imply for President Trump changing your position and the idea that Iran would receive some tangible economic benefit merely for stopping doing things it shouldn’t have been in the first place is just a nonstarter,” Bolton tells Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in an interview as he visits Ukraine.

“If there is a comprehensive deal then of course the sanctions will come off at point. When the regime in Iran is ready to talk about that then there’ll be a meeting,” he adds.

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