UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach
(www.theguardian.com)
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Exclusive: Jonathan Powell thought Tehran’s ‘surprising’ offer on its nuclear programme could prevent rush to war, sources say
Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal.
Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva and that the deal proposed by Iran was “surprising”, according to sources.
Two days after the talks ended, and after a date had been agreed for a further round of technical talks in Vienna, the US and Israel launched the attack on Iran.
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What a stupid article. The premise is beyond upside down, its preposterous. There can be no deals with the US. Serial bad faith negotiators deep six any negotiations from being possible to begin with.
No deals are possible with America. They don’t honour anything. They have no checks or balances and no rule of law for recourse. No deal was within reach. Iran knows this because Trump broke the last nuclear non-proliferation deal unilaterally without cause.
The only reason anyone even bothers to show up to a negotiating table is morbid curiosity, and keeping up the pretense of validity in the hopes that Americans will come to their senses before all hope is abandoned.
I think you're missing the point. He's saying that a deal should have been in reach if the US had been actually interested in making a deal.