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Iran’s hardliners ‘have best case yet’ for weaponising nuclear programme
Mohsen Farshneshani, a lawyer and sanctions adviser at the US-based think tank DAWN, says nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington have failed because of a lack of trust between the parties.
Israel and its neoconservative allies “knew exactly how to exploit that” distrust, Farshneshani wrote in a post on X. “Years of US coercion taught Iran to doubt the sincerity of negotiations – and this latest episode only reaffirms that lesson,” he said.
Farshneshani added that US President Trump could have taken a different path by providing Iran with “proactive sanctions relief” to overcome the lack of trust in diplomacy.
Instead, Israel strikes, Trump gloats – and Iran’s hardliners now have their best case yet for weaponizing the nuclear program: that restraint invites aggression, and engagement with the United States offers no guarantees.”
As we’ve been reporting, US and Iranian delegations had been set to hold nuclear talks in Oman on Sunday, but the Iranian government withdrew from the negotiations in the aftermath of Israel’s attacks on the country.
In the end, US-Iran talks didn’t fail because diplomacy was flawed—they failed because distrust prevailed. And Israel and its neocon allies knew exactly how to exploit that.
Years of US coercion taught Iran to doubt the sincerity of negotiations—and this latest episode only…
— Mohsen, Esq. (@mFarshneshani) June 13, 2025
Last edited by SvennoJ - on 13 June 2025
