Donald Trump's negotiators arrived in Geneva for talks Thursday aimed at stopping a nuclear weapons program the White House has claimed for months it already obliterated.
Now, with that claim clearly put to rest, the U.S. is once again on the brink of war with Iran.
During his State of the Union address, Trump accused Iran of resurrecting its nuclear ambitions. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned this week that Iran must address its non-nuclear ballistic weapons, too.
Coupled with the steep price the U.S. is demanding from Iran to avert military strikes, which includes surrendering nuclear material and giving up all enrichment capabilities, some experts say that the price of a deal may simply be higher for the Iranian regime than continued defiance.
"If we're offering them almost nothing, we're saying that, you know, a lot of it will come much later and there's zero trust between the two sides, then that's just not going to work. The Iranians believe, frankly, that they are better off with a war than a deal like that," the Quincy Institute's Trita Parsi tells Inside Washington.
That could be especially true if a new report Thursday from The New York Times stating that Trump is leaning against a broader military action aimed at unseating the Iranian government in favor of another series of strikes aimed instead at disabling nuclear development sites is accurate.
As the president has proven time and time again, however, only he truly knows what his administration will do next at any given moment.
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