Despite desperate efforts by the Biden administration to make concessions beyond reason, the Iranians may prove too greedy for their own good by rejecting U.S. overtures on a nuclear agreement.
Iranian leaders want assurances that the United States will not withdraw from an agreement again. The administration correctly assesses that they cannot guarantee future administrations will be bound by this poorly conceived pipe dream of an agreement.
The administration should let them go their own way. It was always going to be a good deal for Iran and a bad deal for the rest of the world. Iran will not allow itself to be reined in by a piece of paper and will sign only to buy time. We cannot count on the murderous regime to adhere to any agreement.
Iran will continue to whip up support internally to retaliate for the January 2020 U.S. killing of the terrorist ringleader Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Leaders in the American-led coalition in Iraq knew him to be an architect of attacks on its troops.
It is one of the many excuses that Iran will cite for continuing its international terror campaign with or without a nuclear agreement.