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Iran introduces own version of maximum pressure

Iran may return to the table in a few weeks, but expect it to continue waiting for the United States to make concessions.

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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, then conservative candidate for foreign minister, looks on during a parliament session to review the new president's cabinet selection in the capital Tehran on Aug. 21, 2021. — ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images

Anyone hoping for quick progress in talks to restore the Iran nuclear deal would find little reason for cheer in the posture adopted by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossain Amir-Abdollahian.

In meetings with journalists and analysts in New York last week, the new face of Iran’s foreign policy, from an American perspective, demanded too much and offered too little.

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