"The UK team were surprised by what the Iranians put on the table," the former official added. "It was not a complete deal, but it was progress and was unlikely to be the Iranians' final offer. The British team expected the next round of negotiations to go ahead on the basis of the progress in Geneva." That next round of talks was due to take place in Vienna on Monday 2 March, but never happened. The US and Israel had launched their all-out attack two days earlier. Powell's attendance at the Geneva talks, as well as at a previous set of meetings earlier in the month in the Swiss city, helps in part to explain the UK government's reluctance to back the US attack on Iran, a reluctance that has put the UK-US relationship under unprecedented strain. The UK saw no compelling evidence of an imminent threat of an Iranian missile attack on Europe, or of Iran
And all seemingly unnecessary …
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