|
Finally, the Biden administration is starting to admit reality: there is likely no return to a nuclear agreement with Iran. Such a realization, which seems very shocking to everyone except the many observers who have been shouting it for a long time, is coming even from figures such as Robert Malley who recently warned that the world should brace itself for the possibility of a nuclear Iran. But as talk of a plan B proliferates, it becomes clear that there was no plan B, and Iran knew it. Biden’s “diplomacy first” was really diplomacy only.
Since the summer, the Biden administration has been steadily signaling its frustration with Tehran’s behavior. In July, Secretary Blinken said that the United States’ patience was not “infinite.” As time went by, it seemed to have started to dawn on the administration that it got played by Iran.
Read the full article here.
|
