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A Table in Islamabad

The delegations arrived. The table was set. Nobody agreed what was on it. Iran’s ten-point proposal exists in two versions — one in Farsi, one in English — and they say different things. Exhaustion sometimes achieves what reason cannot. But exhaustion without clarity is not diplomacy.