The EU and Iran have announced that the P5+1 talks have produced a framework for a nuclear deal.
The deadline for a final deal is still June 30th, but deadlines don’t mean anything to President Obama. Indeed, he told his negotiators to pay no heed to the March 31st deadline for the framework.
So if there is no final deal come June 30th then surely Obama will give his negotiators the same instructions. As I argued the other day, the real deadline for an Iran nuclear deal is January 20, 2017.
Howard Dean said the Obama Administration should walk away from the table to get a better deal. But the Obama Administration just wants a deal, any deal. Anything to get a second Nobel Peace Prize.
To paraphrase Pink Floyd, “Desperation is the Obama way.”
