Iran’s Last Chance?

The latest round of international negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program is now underway, with many convinced that the talks in Istanbul represent the last chance to resolve the dispute peacefully. No one has calculated the consequences of a war, while all sides have good reason to sit down and hammer out a solution.

MADRID – The latest round of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program between Iran and the so-called “5+1” group (the United Nations Security Council’s five permanent members – the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China – plus Germany) has now begun. Following more than a year of deadlock, after negotiations in January 2011 led nowhere, this dialogue is for many the last chance to find a peaceful solution to a nearly decade-long conflict (in which I participated closely from 2006 to 2009 as the West’s main negotiator with Iran).

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