{"id":238007,"date":"2021-04-15T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=238007"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:58:53","slug":"editorial-fitting-a-square-peg-into-a-round-hole-with-iran-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/editorial-fitting-a-square-peg-into-a-round-hole-with-iran-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL: Fitting a Square Peg into a Round Hole with Iran Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There will be nothing to write home about once the current round of talks with the Iranian regime concludes. What’s past is prologue; no degree of political or economic incentives will induce behavior change in the Tehran regime. This is because securing its survival and maintaining its hegemony hinge on domestic suppression and its rogue behavior, including its nuclear program.<\/p>\n

As such, investing in any negotiations with Tehran on any significant issue is a fool’s errand.<\/p>\n

Regardless of one\u2019s views on the JCPOA in 2015, facts on the ground and the geopolitics of the region six years later make that deal untenable. Officials in both Europe and the US are on the record for demanding a broader and stronger nuclear deal with the regime than the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA<\/a>). They also want to address the regime’s terrorism and ballistic missile program. However, Tehran’s mullahs have rejected both points of reference, casting considerable doubt on the seriousness of the talks.<\/p>\n

Aside from those realities, however, the very act of talking in good faith with the type of state that organizes its power around denial, duplicity, and deceit is a priori futile.<\/p>\n

Diplomacy and negotiations are vital instruments of statecraft. But by using negotiations to address the regime’s particular assortment of threats, the Europeans are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. When Chamberlain negotiated the Munich Agreement, he was blind to the fact that Hitler never intended to honor the deal in the first place, rendering negotiations futile.<\/p>\n

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