Trita Parsi

It's much more problematic for other countries, particularly the GCC countries.

The Iranians don't get any sanctions relief, but the U.S.

doesn't go back to war.

And it kind of washes its hands of this whole thing, but just walks away.

Doesn't give anything further, doesn't get a deal, but is out of the war, which I think is Trump's critical objective.

Oil prices would come down, etc.

Let me get to that one second.

But the thing is, the Iranians want more than that.

They want a framework agreement on how to manage the relationship between the United States and Iran.

They want to move beyond the 47 years of enmity.

They think that they finally have leverage to be able to meet the U.S.

face to face and get that.

And that would, of course, entail a dramatic amount of...

sanctions relief, but also concessions from their end on the nuclear issue.

From the Iranian side, that would be a much more valuable outcome from this, to make sure that they actually end this situation with the United States and get some sort of agreement, reestablish some economic relations.

That's something the Iranians want.

The U.S.

doesn't need this.

The U.S.

could walk away and would end up in still not an ideal situation, but not a terrible situation.