Publication
27 Aug 2014
When it comes to striking an accord on Iran’s nuclear program, this brief believes Tehran and the P5+1 remain far apart on fundamental issues. That’s because both sides have wrongly assumed that their rival’s desperation for a deal would lead to a softer bottom line, even if it ignored domestic political constraints. As a result, what we have now is a dangerous game of brinkmanship that will yield only failure. That is, of course, unless the negotiators consider an updated version of the 40-point plan for a nuclear accord that the paper’s authors detailed in May 2014.
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Author | International Crisis Group |
Series | Crisis Group Middle East Briefings |
Issue | 40 |
Publisher | International Crisis Group (ICG) |
Copyright | © 2014 International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) |