Iran talks in Oman show one thing clearly: Israel pushed too far, the agenda is trapped, and the US can’t widen it without the whole process collapsing. Right, so Donald Trump is back at it, threatening Iran’s leadership with one hand while sending Steve Witkoff off to “talk” with the other, and the talks are in Muscat today for one reason: Iran has already shown it will walk rather than let their nuclear file be turned into a disarmament trap. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has boxed this thing into a narrow channel, nuclear and sanctions, with discussions about anything else being an automatic kill switch, because if Washington tried the “this or nothing” routine again, Iran very much will, as they’ve already shown, choose nothing. So now the meeting, despite media narratives only actually exists on Iran’s terms. And here’s the part pe ...