I'm with you.
This sounds like the UN speaking:
"The history of U.S.-Iran relations shows that the more Washington chastises Tehran for its nuclear ambitions, the more it plays into the hands of the radicals by riling up fear and nationalist sentiment. Instead, the U.S. needs to offer Iran an acceptable face-saving mechanism to allow it to master, under appropriate international supervision, the nuclear fuel cycle."
For whatever reasons, the authors appear to be willing to take the potentially catastrophic risk that Iran would instead end up as a very hostile regime armed with nuclear weapons. Once Iran "masters the nuclear fuel cycle", Iran could immediately kick out the nuclear inspectors and end the "appropriate international surpervison." The authors are advocating a dangerous riverboat gamble that could end in catastrophe for the western world.