In business or politics, my experience with Iranians has been unless you totally agree to their agenda, negotiations end becoming a circular discussion. Their goal being to achieve agreement by simply wearing the opposition down. Merits are irrelevant.
Best practical example I’ve found is; after politely informing a car salesman “not interested”, salesman proceeds to close the deal by progressive inclusion of each member of the dealership’s management team. One finally agrees to buy a car or walk out in dire need of some calming influence.
The Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider al-Abadi, announced that he cancelled his upcoming trip to Iran because of his “busy schedule.” Talk about a snub if I’ve ever seen one.
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Trump Admin and Israel are huddled together brainstorming this before 5am this morning;). I am quite sure The Donald will invoke some Art of The Deal, make a big deal of Iranian influence (read troops/proxies) in Lebanon and Syria/Iraq and by 6:30am the Saudi's were putting in their 2-barrels worth on Sanna and the rebels firing rockets at them. Now if we do this right, Trump puts his boot in Qatar's A$$ for aligning rather openly with Iran. Once all these are sorted out, Trump can demand one last point of contention - that Iran stop and renounce it's plans to attack US Diplomatic missions worldwide, and get the hell out of S.America as their commie pals in V-land collapse (This should lessen US war planning with Iran who has preplanned and ready to attack any Embassy, or consulate, plus they openly advocate attacking US Business interests). Once they renounce attacking US Diplomatic missions, get out of Syria, drawdown support in Mid-East for their proxies and return their Quads/regular army forces to the barracks in Iran we can talk turkey (and that ain't got nothing to do with Ankara).
You 'd like to talk, here's our agenda so now what do you ask to see President Trump about!
