announced a possible U.S.-Iran understanding, he did so after placing calls to a number of regional countries: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, and – separately – Israel. Not a single European capital was on the call list. As the Quincy Institute’s Executive Vice President, Trita Parsi, noted, “Europe’s near-total absence from the process is striking — though hardly problematic. By this point, Europe’s diplomatic irrelevance in major Mid...

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