Denys Davydov | The first details of what was actually on the table in Islamabad are e...

The first details of what was actually on the table in Islamabad are emergingThe U.S. offered to release a portion of Iran's frozen funds and end the warIn exchange, they wanted a 20-year enrichment freeze, removal of all enriched material from Iran, and free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz with no tollsThe Iranian delegation reportedly discussed the nuclear issue despite not being authorized to do so by Tehran, but the gaps between the two sides were described as enormousRead that again: Iran's negotiators went further than their own government instructed, and it still wasn't enough to close the dealThat either means the U.S. demands were genuinely unreachable, or Tehran's red lines are so rigid that even its own negotiators couldn't work around them, quite possibly bothA 20-year enrichment freeze is not a concession Iran has ever come close to accepting, and free Hormuz navigation without tolls strips Iran of its only remaining leverageThe distance between what Trump needs to declare victory and what Iran could survive politically may simply be too wide for any negotiator to bridge