No. of Recommendations: 19
If the Administration's initial proposal includes a sunset provision, that does make it pretty likely that we'll end up with one at the end. If that ends up being the case, it will be interesting if folks like Dubowitz that regarded the sunset provision as an unacceptable fatal flaw in the JCPOA are just as unsparing in their criticism of this new deal as the old one.Man, I should know better than to underestimate how much the Administration deviates from "normal" practice. In any normal diplomatic negotiations, the negotiating team would have a solid understanding of what the parameters of their "deal space" were, and the principles on whose behalf they were negotiating would maintain their credibility. In that context, it would be absurd to think that the initial offer from a negotiating team was one that the country in question didn't actually want.
But, hey man, it's Trump baby. So we hear today from Himself that he
doesn't support what his lead negotiator and his
own Vice President was offering as an initial position:
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that U.S.-Iran peace talks may resume “over the next two days” in Pakistan, but that he was not pleased with the offer of a 20-year suspension of Tehran’s nuclear enrichment program made last weekend by his chief negotiator, Vice President JD Vance.https://archive.ph/i8ktGCrazy stuff!
