As the deadline drew closer, positions shifted. All sides confronted the cold reality that a breakdown in the talks would risk a return to the sharp confrontations of 2012 and earlier, when the unrestrained growth of Iran’s uranium stockpiles steadily increased the risk of war. This being a bad time for a war—well, for yet another war—a breakdown was quite unattractive; with no deal readily available, extension was the only path forward.
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