MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DON’T TELL US FAIRY TALES / US DEALING WITH IRAN

Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton 49m49 minutes ago 16 May 2019

Kyle Orton Retweeted Jeffrey Goldberg

Their channel, opened in 2012, gives the lie to the idea Obama reached out to Iran after it “elected” a “moderate” president. The secret talks showed how desperate the US was for a deal, and indeed the sanctions built up over a decade were punctured in the *first* round.

Kyle Orton added,

Jeffrey GoldbergVerified account @JeffreyGoldberg

“We’ve seen coercive diplomacy succeed with Iran—this is not how it works.” William Burns and Jake Sullivan, the two negotiators who opened the Iranian channel, argue against escalation (via @theatlantic): https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/trumps-iran-strategy-all-coercion-no-diplomacy/589558/ …

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