Saeed Jalili said he has formally called on the six powers — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — to return to the negotiating table with Iran.
The invitation comes in the wake of new sanctions recently imposed by the West over Tehran's uranium enrichment program, which is a potential pathway to making nuclear arms.
The last round of negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany in January in Istanbul, Turkey, ended in failure.
Iran continues to buy time until Iran can go nuclear. We tell ourselves that we will detect Iran's progress with enough clarity to know when that is imminent. And we pretend that when we know the threat is imminent we will do something about it with no tool off the table.
I'm thinking Iran isn't wrong to assume we're willing to pretend that talking is working (for us).
The show must go on.
