In interviews with The Epoch Times, congressional Republicans said they favored the Trump administration negotiating with Iran.
The United States will hold indirect talks with Iran on April 12 despite President Donald Trump saying on April 7 that there would be direct negotiations with the regime.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), an Iran hawk, called the talks a “smart” idea.
“This is not the Obama era, where they’re looking for a deal so bad that they’re gonna get a bad deal,” he said.
The Obama administration reached a deal with Iran in 2015 in which Tehran agreed to scale back its nuclear weapons program in exchange for sanctions relief….