The fundamentalist regime in Iran came to the negotiating table from a position of utter weakness and not due to a change of heart by Tehran’s leadership over its nuclear project, Ambassador Ken Blackwell rightly points out today.
“It had its back against the wall.”
Over-stretched by three regional wars, with a restive population, particularly among the young and the women, and an economy on the verge of collapse, the regime in Iran was not in any position to seek concessions, he said.