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allowing sanctions relief, and accepting Iran’s demand for enrichment as part of its nuclear programme. Fortunately, the E-3—UK, France and Germany—have stepped up negotiations with Iran, who reportedly consulted with Russia and China before this engagement. Given the fractured state of great power politics, there are big question marks on the future of these talks. In the ultimate analysis, it is the US administration that must ensure that it is diplomatically able to encash the benefits of its military strikes. Unless a quick way is found to assuage and rehabilitate Iran, this could be a festering wound that, as Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates had warned in 2012, would continue “haunting us for generations in that part of the world.” He had feared that attacks “would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable. แทงบอล