01/18/2021
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"I think diplomacy is important. And I think if we can figure out a negotiated settlement that brings this to a peaceful conclusion, we should pursue it."
"I do not think that, in the Iranian view of the world--a negotiated power-sharing agreement sounds really good in the halls of Western diplomatic conversation."
"Irrespective of what we may think about what the ideal solution is, which is this big peace treaty where everybody sits down and shakes hands, they have a government and everybody is happy with it, th..."
"I just hope we do not put too many eggs in that basket because the people that are fueling this on the Iranian side are not that big on negotiated diplomatic Western European models of diplomacy."