20 Mar 2026 10:18 am
Iran stated repeatedly to the US that they would NEVER give up their right to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels, which can ONLY be useful in making nuclear weapons. Once they made that definitive statement, the US and Israel both were convinced that the ONLY solution was to destroy that ability, when it would have been possible for them to successfully build 11 nuclear bombs with the fissile material they still had just a matter of weeks.jerrab » 19 Mar 2026, 3:36 pm » wrote: ↑ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The UK team were surprised by what the Iranians put on the table,” the former official added.“It was not a complete deal, but it was progress and was unlikely to be the Iranians’ final offer. The British team expected the next round of negotiations to go ahead on the basis of the progress in Geneva.”That next round of talks was due to take place in Vienna on Monday 2 March, but never happened. The US and Israel had launched their all-out attack two days earlier.Powell’s attendance at the Geneva talks, as well as at a previous set of meetings earlier in the month in the Swiss city, helps in part to explain the UK government’s reluctance to back the US attack on Iran, a reluctance that has put the UK-US relationship under unprecedented strain.The UK saw no compelling evidence of an imminent threat of an Iranian missile attack on Europe, or of Iran securing a nuclear weapon. This is the first time it has become clear that Britain was so closely involved in the talks, and so had good reason to decide whether diplomatic options had been exhausted and a US attack was necessary.Instead the UK regarded the attack as unlawful and premature since Powell believed the path remained open to a negotiated solution to the long-running issue of how Iran could reassure the US that it was not seeking a nuclear weapon.
Of course, stupid, naive liberal diplomats ALWAYS want to continue talking and NEVER think their negotiations have failed, or they'd be out of a job!
It's a shame that you're too dumb to acknowledge that!