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.
Okay? I’m really not sure what your point is here, everyone knows the US is full of shit and can’t be reasoned with. The article is about the fact that Iran could be reasoned with, they were actually willing to negotiate.
They were willing to negotiate with anyone but the US.
Because the US is full of shit and can’t be reasoned with.
Iran really seems to have been behaving reasonably here.
They are behaving rationally, and in their perceived self interest yes. I’m saying their self interest is obviously not to engage in lopsided deals faithfully with known serial bad faith actors. They are many things, stupid isn’t one of them.