The powers-that-be have bought into the false option of either making a deal or going to a war footing. It was once known as the Sarkozy Option: Iran with the bomb, or bomb Iran.
It need not be, and everybody knows it. Deep in the subtexts, and every now and then in public, we hear about the White House’s not-so-secret dream that the Iranian regime will either moderate or fall. It’s worth recalling that Gorbachev managed both. First he reformed, via glasnost and perestroika, and then he fell. There was never a fatal choice between a deal and war.
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