Trump ‘has no military way out of war and Iran has better cards’:

The latest debate over a diplomatic path is really the newest turn in what has become a quasi-theatrical, stunt-like saga about whether Washington is offering Iran a serious off-ramp or simply repackaging older hardline demands that were previously rejected by Tehran...“From what has been reported, the 15-point plan echoes positions the US has pressed before. If true, then this is not JCPOA-style diplomacy revisited so much as a more maximalist set of terms that Tehran is bound to reject,” she told The Independent. “The JCPOA was narrowly centred on the nuclear file and verification. What is now being described goes well beyond that and cuts into the military and regional pillars of Iran’s power.”