Washington and Tehran will have to make compromises and the current deadline must be extended. But with the will there\u2019s clearly a way <\/p>\n
The failure of the Islamabad talks to end the US-Israel war on Iran was hardly surprising, given the stark differences<\/a> between Washington\u2019s 15-point proposal and Tehran\u2019s 10-point equivalent. The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA<\/a>), which capped Iran\u2019s uranium enrichment, took more than two years<\/a> to negotiate, and its roots actually reach back to 2003<\/a>. The US vice-president, JD Vance, spent less than a full day in Islamabad for negotiations that included the nuclear question and several others.<\/p>\n The surprise was Vance\u2019s explanation for the failure \u2013 that Iran rejected the terms presented by the US. The American side was not in a position to dictate terms because Iran stood firm when the 8 April ceasefire took effect. But Vance seemed to believe, as does his boss Donald Trump, that the Iranians had been defeated and the US didn\u2019t have to budge.<\/p>\n Rajan Menon is professor emeritus of international relations at Powell School, City University of New York, and senior research fellow at Columbia University\u2019s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington and Tehran will have to make compromises and the current deadline must be extended. But with the will there\u2019s clearly a way The failure of the Islamabad talks to end the US-Israel war on Iran was hardly surprising, given the stark differences between Washington\u2019s 15-point proposal and Tehran\u2019s 10-point equivalent. The 2015 Joint Comprehensive … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}