Americans broadly support direct negotiations with Iran: Poll

As Iran and the United States are holding intense talks about Tehran’s nuclear program in the Swiss city of Lausanne, a new poll shows that Americans broadly support direct negotiations with Iran.
According to a CNN/ORC International Poll, direct diplomatic negotiations between Iran and the US are broadly popular as 68 percent of the total 1,009 respondents voted in favor of the talks.
The poll, which was conducted on March 13-15, 2015, indicated that only 29 percent of adult Americans oppose their country’s direct talks with Iran.

Also according to the poll, the majority of the US party lines support diplomacy between the US and Iran with 77 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of independents favoring it.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry opened a fresh round of talks in Lausanne on Monday in an attempt to bridge differences on the outstanding issues pertaining to Tehran’s nuclear program and reach an agreement.
In a bid to sabotage the diplomatic efforts, a group of 47 Republican senators recently sent a letter to Iran over an emerging nuclear deal.