David Ignatius on Iran Deal: There’s a Lot in It in Terms of Getting Billions of Dollars in Frozen Assets Back to Iran

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IGNATIUS: “One thing that I've learned that really is interesting, is that the administration's negotiations, although they're still working with the Pakistani mediators and the kind of formal line of negotiation that they began a few weeks ago, have also been working back channels, trying to contact new people within the IRGC, the Iranian hardline group, in the hopes of pulling people away and encouraging them to think that there's a different path for the country. Whether that will bear fruit should be clear in the next 24 to 48 hours, but the details of a possible plan are pretty far along, and I think it's a question of whether there is the political will in Iran to embrace this deal. There's a lot in it for them in terms of ending the war, but also in terms of getting billions of dollars in frozen assets back to them.”