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UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach
The Guardian ^ | March 17, 2026 | Patrick Wintour and Julian Borger

Posted on 03/18/2026 7:00:03 AM PDT by McGruff

Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal.

Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva in late February and that the deal proposed by Iran was “surprising”, according to sources.

Two days after the talks ended, and after a date had been agreed for a further round of technical talks in Vienna, the US and Israel launched the attack on Iran.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bs; europe; euroweenies; iran; israel; jonathanpowell; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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1 posted on 03/18/2026 7:00:03 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Sure.


2 posted on 03/18/2026 7:02:15 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Opinions and belly buttons, everybody has one and they get to show them if they want to.)
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To: McGruff
"UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks..."

Why so they could screw up the deal???
3 posted on 03/18/2026 7:02:28 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: McGruff

Don’t care. He - a member of the Starmer regime - has his opinion. Obviously, the Trump administration disagreed.


4 posted on 03/18/2026 7:03:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: McGruff

LOL. A deal that would have been acceptable to the UK was in reach. Probably something along the lines of - give Iran $20 billion and they promise that they won’t build a nuclear bomb but no outside monitoring. You just have to trust them.


5 posted on 03/18/2026 7:04:39 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: McGruff

What BS!


6 posted on 03/18/2026 7:05:16 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: McGruff

So the Business As Usual, Eternal War contingent has spoken.


7 posted on 03/18/2026 7:05:48 AM PDT by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: McGruff

Surrender monkeys always find a reason not to go to war. 🙄


8 posted on 03/18/2026 7:09:10 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: McGruff

Exactly when did the US become a subjugated nation to the UK where the UK decides what is an acceptable deal for Americans?

Notice he says nothing of the ability to build a nuke nor the fact they already violated every agreement by having and enriching all that uranium.

Dear United Kingdom of mooselimb animals, respectively SOD OFF!


9 posted on 03/18/2026 7:09:11 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: McGruff

A Euroweenie Deal, maybe.

No, thanks.

We see where their “judgement” has gotten them with the muslin migrant invasion.


10 posted on 03/18/2026 7:09:49 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: McGruff

Consider the source!


11 posted on 03/18/2026 7:10:34 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: McGruff

Steve Witkoff our chief negotiator reported an entirely different story. Gee, who to believe, Trump’s guy or somebody from Britanistan.


12 posted on 03/18/2026 7:11:03 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: McGruff

Oh well, if a UK security adviser says........was his name Neville?


13 posted on 03/18/2026 7:11:41 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: McGruff

A deal like the one Obama made? That’s not a deal, that’s a sellout.


14 posted on 03/18/2026 7:14:19 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: McGruff

Powell particularly liked the demand that Britains’s Nat Security Adviser provide weekly blowjobs to the council of Ayatollahs


15 posted on 03/18/2026 7:14:22 AM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: McGruff

I doubt he was even in the room. Even if he was, he would have no say as to what would be acceptable.

No enrichment of any kind was the only acceptable outcome.

Iran lost the war in that room, the only thing not known was the date of total capitulation


16 posted on 03/18/2026 7:14:36 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: McGruff

And we should accept his opinion because????


17 posted on 03/18/2026 7:16:59 AM PDT by Wuli ( )
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To: aquila48

For sure. The Guardian is a global joke run by Trump hating deluded leftist children


18 posted on 03/18/2026 7:17:47 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: McGruff
"One Gulf diplomat with knowledge of the talks said: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”

I can see Jared Kushner giving off that impression, but not Witkoff

19 posted on 03/18/2026 7:17:59 AM PDT by hcmama (Love that guy.)
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To: hcmama

The antisemitic elites are constantly exposing themselves over their irrational hatred for the Jooos!

Always seems to come down to how the Joooss! control everything.


20 posted on 03/18/2026 7:21:43 AM PDT by Skwor
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