Trump administration "laser focused" on Iran's nuclear program, Waltz says

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said the Trump administration is "laser focused" on addressing Iran's nuclear program in an interview Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," as the U.S. and Iran hold thorny talks in Switzerland. Earlier Sunday, Vice President JD Vance and other U.S. officials entered a conference room with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a rare direct meeting between high-level envoys from both countries. Ghalibaf, in particular, is described in some quarters as a hardliner: He helped oversee the creation of Iran's missile program and allegedly bragged about cracking down on protesters. "None of these senior members of this genocidal regime are good guys by any means," Waltz said. "They certainly wouldn't pass an FBI background check. No one expects that. But, at the end of the day, the administration, our administration, is taking a pragmatic approach." Waltz said Sunday the administration's focus is on preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, in contrast with what he called a "policy drift" in prior U.S. goals with Iran. But he added that "we know the type of people that we're dealing with," citing Iran's deadly crackdown on demonstrations earlier this year and its history of imprisoning American citizens . …