With the world community willing to reengage Iranians with dialog, diplomacy and unfettered access for inspections, cooler heads have prevailed in the short term to de-escalate the rabid words for war. A war or any military action the world could ill afford to allow, the EU has acknowledged the acceptance of a month old offer to establish fresh dialog regarding Iran's nuclear program.
This sudden and unexpected agreement to reopen lines of communications actually belied US/Israeli public efforts to stifle further negotiations in favor of crippling sanctions and the threat of bunker busting Iran into compliance.
While Israel played the roll of a ravenously crazed warmonger, the US costared as beleaguered friend barely capable of holding them back. The good Cop bad cop scenario was designed to frighten any existing Iranian pragmatist into advocating for immediate concessions. Failing to budge the Supreme Leader off his stance of "we aint doin' nothin' & you can't prove it if we was", the price of oil began to rise with temperature of the rhetoric.
Recognizing that merely having this narrative persist during a highly charged election season could push loose lips into sinking ships, the International community correctly returned to renewing dialog in the interest of global stability. Still, a most perplexing question still to be resolved is why allow the level of bluster to reach such a shrill when a sensible and less economic damaging compromise was but a phone call away?
It remains unclear as to how the face-saving scorecards can be divvied up so all parties concerned can claim some semblance of victory. The US can say the "crippling sanctions" brought the Iranians to their senses, the EU can say the world came to its senses, the Iranians will say " we wasn't doin' nothin' & you can't prove nothin' see" and the Israelis can say, we still reserve the right to blast your ass!
From our angle, the world's energy consumers are the primary beneficiaries of sanity making its way back to the table; even if its only temporary.
Just the way we like it, a win win for everybody.
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