John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK LAWRENCE IN CONSORTIUM NEWS
“Brighter US-Iran Prospects
“Despite the seemingly escalating risks of war, last week also produced an unexpected drift toward the mahogany table”
I just do not agree.
The starting point for any effort at “mahogany tables” is the United States renouncing its insane destruction of the nuclear agreement.
Iran not only has said that, but logic leads us to that conclusion.
So, what are the chances of Trump and Company eating a large serving of crow in public?
Please, how can there be any kind of “negotiations” with a country which doesn’t keep its word? And that is precisely what the United States has proven itself to be.
A country which publicly rips up a legal and binding contract that not only worked for four years but involved the interests of other signatories, China, Russia, France, Britain, Germany, the EU , and Iran? All just ignored in a fit of infantile fury?
Iran would be foolish to do anything else but demand that as a starting point, and Iran has proved it is anything but foolish.
