Quote:The trouble is, maintaining the sanctions isn't just up to us. It's also up to all the other players, and if we failed to make a deal, I know for sure Russia and China would have walked away and the sanctions would have collapsed.


Besides, Russia and China got on board with the sanctions because of the possibility of Iran developing a nuclear weapon. Moving the goalposts to where Iran has to also renounce its foreign policy and become a friend instead of an enemy, and especially regime change, would not be workable at all. That's not what Russia and China and the rest of the UN signed up for. You can't persuade people to support the sanctions and the negotiations and then move the goal posts!

China and Russia are at the table because Iran is a rogue nation like North Korea. Russia is only a third of the super powers they're not going to end sanctions while China and the Unite States keep them. There's no benefit for China to ease up sanctions they don't want a nuclear Iran, they're positioning to leverage against Russia as much as us.

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