Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The president’s special envoy Steve Witkoff reconfirmed the administration’s extreme position on the nuclear issue. He said this in an interview with Breitbart: ‘An enrichment program can never exist in the state of Iran ever again. That’s our red line. No enrichment.’ … The U.S. acts as if it it is negotiating the terms of a surrender after a major defeat, but Iran doesn’t consider itself to have been defeated. Washington wants to dictate terms as if the U.S. were the conqueror, but it hasn’t conquered anything and it shouldn’t try. The diplomatic solution has been there for the taking all along, just as it was when Biden was president. The administration has to be willing to swallow its pride and accept something more or less like the original nuclear deal, or it will end up with nothing.” (05/12/25)