The latest round of talks in Vienna on Iran’s nuclear program has ended with, guess what, tacit agreement to hold further talks for four more months.
Both Iran and the 5+1 group of nations (the five UN Security Council veto powers, plus Germany) tried to create the impression that they were in a cliff-hanger right to the end. Every day, they came out with a tantalizing “we’re almost there” claim.
Yet the truth is that the very format of the talks makes a meaningful agreement near-impossible, for several reasons.
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