Seven Realities That Made an Iran Deal Almost Inevitable
America's negotiators deserve some empathy—they had to accept some inconvenient truths about the Middle East.
Shai Feldman is the Director of Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Ariel E. Levite is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.