Thursday's meeting in Geneva between the great powers and Iran delivered a big win for Iran, whose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could go to bed that night once again truly believing "America can do nothing" - a phase his mentor, Islamic revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, loved to repeat.
The buildup on our side of these talks was tremendous. Expectations ran high that Iran's representative would simply grandstand and use the talks to sermonize the United States, that we would walk out, and "crippling sanctions" would begin.
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