The U.S. is engaged in “some very good talks with Iran,” President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, adding: “We’ll find out whether that means anything.”
While talks over Iran’s nuclear program continue as the U.S. seeks to prevent Iran from becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, America might find itself in a situation with Iran similar to what President Bill Clinton encountered decades ago with North Korea.
It was 1994 and North Korea had just announced it was pulling out of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Preventing North Korea from gaining nuclear weapons capabilities was a top U.S. priority and former President Jimmy Carter inserted himself into negotiations with then-dictator Kim Il-Sung, the grandfather of the current dictator, Kim Jong Un.
While discussions between Clinton’s administration…
