ISRAEL HAYOM
Iran keeps bluffing with same hand
by Richard Baehr
March 29, 2016

As the multiyear talks between Iran and the P5+1 nations carried on toward an interim agreement, and eventually the unsigned final deal that one side (ours) hailed, the Iranians played a card that they continue to play today. That card was the bluff that they would walk away if unsatisfied with the concessions offered by the U.S., other permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany. The Iranians caught on that President Barack Obama was legacy-obsessed and would always concede rather than risk them walking away…Virtually every day in the final weeks of the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, there were media reports of additional concessions by the American negotiating team, led by Secretary of State John Kerry and top State Department official Wendy Sherman. READ MORE