They are playing for time again just like always. They never intend to deal at all. Business as usual which is no deal at all. They just don’t make deals with infidels and the more you persecute them the better they like it and the more convinced they are they are doing the right thing. You can’t beat them into submission so you just have to kill them or live with what they do.
Trump saying a deal is at hand just gives them encouragement to keep going. They some how attach that to leverage in their favor.
I have said here many times what an old friend with Esso said, “Persians are crazy.”
+1 An excellent, right-to-the-point post.
Any deals they would “agree to” are worthless anyhow. Even if they were to “capitulate” it will only be temporary to buy time to re-arm.
The best outcome is likely crippling the country to an extent that it forces them to focus on rebuilding and recovery instead of using their resources and assets to threaten others.
The crazy mullahs aren’t Persian. They are Arabs.