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Endgame in the Iran Negotiations: The Choice Is Tehran's


(National Interest) Robert Einhorn- What is publicly known about the Lausanne framework for an Iranian nuclear deal comes mainly from a U.S.-issued fact sheet. Although the Iranians have complained that the fact sheet is one-sided, the Americans assert that Iran agreed to everything in the fact sheet - and Iranian negotiators do not dispute that claim. Yet a series of public statements by Supreme Leader Khamenei and other senior Iranians seem to contradict and backtrack from solutions already worked out in the negotiations. Iranian negotiators are therefore faced with the challenge of reconciling what they have already agreed to with the statements of their Supreme Leader. The writer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was a senior member of the U.S. delegation to the Iran nuclear negotiations from 2009 to 2013.
2015-06-11 00:00:00
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