Iranian officials have stymied yet another Western effort to jump-start nuclear negotiations, a delay drawing public criticism from Russia as U.S. and Israeli officials contemplate military intervention.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team made an ominous public appeal for Iran to return to Vienna for the seventh round of negotiations over the renewal of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which collapsed after former President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States in 2018. That message coincided with a high-profile huddle between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, just as a European Union envoy traveled to Tehran for talks that produced a disappointing result from the perspective of Brussels and Washington.
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