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.
You’re still not getting it. How can you be prepared to have a deal with one belligerent bad faith actor?
How can Iran accept any deal when the belligerent bad faith actor broke the last deal without evidence. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
I’m almost certain they went in the fool’s hopes that other countries could join and bring legitimacy to the table and barring that, they would just say the nice things and go with the motions, but I don’t believe Iran is stupid enough to fall for the same trick again.
The geopolitical consensus of this whole affair is that American fuckups taught the world that nukes are a security imperative.