The sooner our side realizes that the Iranians are stalling until Russia or China gives them more firepower the sooner we can obliterate their sorry asses!
The claim is that China is not giving them anything and is pressuring the Iranians and wants uninterrupted oil to resume.
The Russians OTOH have every reason to want as much chaos and high oil prices as possible.
They are stalling til the midterms.
This is just like talks with Ukrainian arseholes like Zelynskyy and hamas thugs.
Quit negotiating with thugs. Just eliminate then and speak to the ones who step up as replacements.
Is it expensive to spend one bomb to get rid of one arsehole? Sure. But, the object lesson is for the replacement — is he too stupid to spot the trend?