Iran-No Deal

BBC News - Iran's Khamenei rejects US nuclear talks offer

It is unfortunate that Iran's leaders are divorced from the realities on the ground that affect the people in the streets.  They are being hammered by the sanctions but the religious leaders who control the country are motivated only by ideology and are willing to sacrifice the people to maintain their power base.  I fear that in the absence of an uprising of the people there is nothing short of physical intervention that will alter the pursuit of nuclear energy.  The rational fear is that such technology would inevitably lead to nuclear weapons.

However, it seems clear that attack by the United States or Israel would only serve to galvanize support for the Ayatollahs.  The path seems to be the one we are pursuing which is to try just about anything before resorting to that avenue.