If President Donald Trump wants to secure a meaningful peace agreement with Iran quickly, he’ll have to maintain a tight negotiating focus on Iran’s nuclear program. All other concerns are secondary.
The failure of the negotiations in Pakistan last weekend was unsurprising. Iran clearly entered those talks with the aspiration to extract one-sided concessions from an American president desperate for peace. Iran’s simultaneous refusal to abide by the terms of a two-week ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz further underlined its brinkmanship. Trump was right to walk away from the talks. He has now rightly increased the pressure on Iran by enforcing an embargo of Iranian supplied oil and gas tankers. Still, Trump needs more realistic objectives when the next round of talks occurs later this week.
The “red lines” offered by chief U.S. negotiator Vice President JD Vance during last weekend’s talks were not realistic. Media reports suggest these red
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