Does Trump want U.S. talks with Iran to fail so he can give Israel the war with Iran it’s always wanted? From Mike Whitney at unz.com:
Here’s what the media is not telling you about last Saturday’s nuclear negotiations with Iran:
There were no negotiations. Not in the conventional sense of the word, at least. What actually took place was more akin to a late-night comedy skit than a gathering of diplomats hammering out a deal on nuclear enrichment.
At no point, were the members of the Iranian team in the same room as the members of the American team. The delegates from the US sat in one room while the delegates from Iran sat in another shuttling handwritten messages back-and-forth as they might have done in the 19th century before electronic communications.
And they did not debate the nuclear issue either. No, the confab was convened merely to settle issues related to the nature of the negotiations themselves and the “format”.
Format? What does that mean?
It means the Iranians are not going to negotiate nuclear enrichment (and economic sanctions) with the Trump team if the Trump team is going to include all manner of extraneous issues unrelated to the topic. It means that Iranians are not going to proceed unless there is an explicit agreement that the US will maintain the normal protocols for diplomatic engagement, particularly as it regards the administration’s propensity to use every opportunity to threaten its rivals.
