While reporting on Monday’s NBC Nightly News with the latest from the Iranian side of the international talks in Switzerland over their nuclear program, Ann Curry smeared U.S. conservatives by likening them to radical hardliners in Iran’s Islamic regime.

After a report from chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell on the overall state of the talks as the Tuesday deadline approaches, interim anchor Lester Holt turned to Curry for “the latest on a tough situation facing Iranian negotiators having to convince hardliners in that country to go along with any deal.”

Curry began her brief report by declaring that Monday was “a critical night in these talks” as “the Iranian negotiators say they really need to say yes to a deal” but also, should a deal be forged, be required “to sell it back home.”

It was at that point she launched into the comparison between Republicans and skeptical Iranian leaders: “As in the U.S., Iran has conservatives who don't trust the other side and they are ready to pounce if they believe negotiators give up too much.”

Curry then concluded by touting the Iranian hopes for relief on the sanctions front:

So the biggest price for the Iranians is to be able to announce some relief from crippling sanctions and most importantly, UN sanctions, as they see it some immediate relief from UN sanctions would mean that for the first time in more than 30 years, Iran would no longer be an outlier in the international community[.]

In addition to NBC’s coverage, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley had reports on the talks in Lausanne, Switzerland.

On CBS, State Department correspondent Margaret Brennan brought up how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains opposed to the talks as the latest “demands” from the Iranian side have “only further antagonized” him while “Republicans have not hid their own disdain for the talks and have threatened to increase sanctions and block any deal with Iran.”

Back on March 16, Brennan was reporting from negotiations in Switzerland for CBS This Morning when she made a similar comparison between conservatives in Congress and Iranian leaders who have been against a nuclear deal as Curry did on Monday.

The relevant portions of the transcript from March 30's NBC Nightly News can be found below.