UK security adviser ‘attended’ US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach
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Exclusive: Jonathan Powell thought Tehran’s ‘surprising’ offer on its nuclear programme could prevent rush to war, sources say

Exclusive: Jonathan Powell thought Tehran’s ‘surprising’ offer on its nuclear programme could prevent rush to war, sources say

Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal.

Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva and that the deal proposed by Iran was “surprising”, according to sources.

Two days after the talks ended, and after a date had been agreed for a further round of technical talks in Vienna, the US and Israel launched the attack on Iran.

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    No, you’re still not getting it.

    if only we completely reconfigure the topic, the stakes and the parties involved.

    Emphasis added to that plural. Iran was not the problem here. Iran was open to a reasonable deal. It was the Americans who were unreasonable, irrational warmongers that wouldn’t accept anything other than total surrender and the destruction of Iran. Only one of the parties involved was the problem.