Iran does not want to negotiate.
The Ayatollahs want to buy time so they can build the nukes for their apocalypse. The entire Iranian leadership has told us this EXPLICITLY, and like Mussolini and Hirohito in an earlier era, before prefer doublethink over evidence. Elites tell us the Iranians *must* be playing a game of "chess" we benighted westerners cannot understand, since no one would be that insane to believe in the 12th Mahdi and the end of times.
Well, except for us Republicans, who they claim are "just as bad" in wanting the end of the earth. The world didn't end when Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak facility in 1981, and it won't end if we hit Iran with robust airstrikes periodically.