Why did the Nov. 7-9 negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany (the so-called P5+1) on Iran’s disputed nuclear program falter, despite high hopes for an agreement?
The standard explanation by many journalists and pundits is that the French scuttled it and that they did so at Israel’s behest. Based on this somewhat misleading interpretation, no one but the expressive French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and combative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are to be blamed.