The
notion around the final day of talks between the P5+1 and Iran over the latter’s
nuclear program is that there will be a 3-month extension that is most likely
to peter out as hardliners in the US and Iran increase their domestic influence
and compromise becomes harder to achieve. Now, I’m no nuclear expert, but given
such prospects, wouldn’t it be in the interests of both the Obama and Rouhani administration
to maintain momentum and make it harder for their domestic opponents to force
them to pull back from an eventual final deal by baking in some mutual gains in
a mini-deal? I would have certainly been working at that over, say, the last
couple of days before the deadline, instead of trying to bridge all the
differences in a last-ditch effort to reach a full-fledged deal.
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