Iran Doesn't Want Rubio's Fake 'Compromise'

It is the same old maximalist position that Iran hawks have been pushing for more than a decade.

The Trump administration keeps asking for something that the Iranian government has already ruled out:

Iran has insisted it must be allowed to have its own uranium enrichment capacity for its civil nuclear programme, rejecting a US demand that Tehran must rely exclusively on imported nuclear fuel.

Marco Rubio said earlier this week that Iran would have to give up domestic enrichment if it wanted an agreement with the U.S. Rubio dishonestly presented the demand as a “compromise,” but it is the same old maximalist position that Iran hawks have been pushing for more than a decade. This remains an obvious non-starter for Iran, and they have just reconfirmed that they won’t accept these terms. The administration can’t be interested in finding a diplomatic solution when it keeps making demands that it knows in advance are unacceptable to the other side.