My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

I've had a lot of input, and everything has been very simple and straightforward - keep it as it is.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

In the past two decades, what is abnormal in the discourse among nations has been accepted as normal in US-Iran relations. Lack of diplomatic relations, often between countries at conflict, even at war, is the abnormality, not the norm.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.