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There is a particular kind of diplomacy that photographs well. A prime minister received on a tarmac by the Riviera light of Nice in France. The two leaders touring a startup exhibition, grinning like men who have found money on the pavement. A Japanese premier calling her Indian counterpart her elder brother, and being called a sister in return, with all the weight that word carries in a country...

When negotiators speak of sixty-day roadmaps and final deals, they are working on one time horizon. Their Iranian counterparts are working on another. Sixty days is nothing to a people who measure political memory in dynasties.   On the Privernati, the logic of revenge as moral act, and what every great power fails to understand about peoples who have made defiance their constitution...