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Mere days before negotiations intensified here in Vienna ahead of the deadline, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggested increasing, not reducing, Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities, to a capacity amounting to roughly 10 times what Western negotiators have sought for months.
"The Obama administration would be better served by threatening to walk away from these talks unless Iran abandons its unacceptable positions than to maintain talks for the sake of talks," said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.
"Process should never be a substitute for results, especially if the process becomes a distraction to achieving those results."
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