More likely, Irans self-proclaimed Islamist revolutionaries see negotiations as did Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Communist leader, when he offered a revolutionary twist on Carl von Clausewitzs famous dictum about politics: All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. Or as Iranian parliamentarian Ali Motahari recently phrased it: Negotiations do not require concessions. Negotiations are a tool for us to receive concessions. About a day after the conclusion of the Geneva talks, the semi-official Fars News Agency published a cartoon showing Zarif in a tractor operating a huge microphone as a wrecking ball, smashing a castle, atop which is a black flag with the word sanctions in Farsi.
And don't think for a second that this was an "accident" or oversight on the part of the obamanation administration. The SOB bends over backwards to appease his boys in Moscow.