The potential deal would mark a major reversal in policy for President Donald Trump, who pulled the U.S. out of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran in 2018, arguing in part that the sanctions relief and unfreezing of Iranian assets had provided a “ lifeline of cash ” to the Iranian regime to continue its malign activities.

Experts long argued that airstrikes alone would not be capable of permanently ending Iran's nuclear program absent negotiations.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he expects Iran to open itself to international inspection to verify that it doesn’t restart its nuclear program. Asked during a White House news conference if he would demand during expected talks with Iran that the International Atomic Energy Agency,