My guess is two reasons: - Expectations settings. If they say they're working on a possible solution, people will expect the solution to materialize and get up

My guess is two reasons: - Expectations settings. If they say they're working on a possible solution, people will expect the solution to materialize and get upset when it doesn't. Since this seems like it was a lobbying effort with OFAC, there was probably a large degree of uncertainty on whether this would happen at all. - Like you suggested, maybe they thought any public comment about this might put at risk the conversations they were having with OFAC?