Iran comprehensively rejected all negotiations throughout this last week and confirmed it will not start negotiations under any circumstances. With the back broken to Trump’s military assault the only path back to negotiations would be to offer front-loaded real concessions. The main obstacle on the path back to negotiations with Iran is that he and his inner circle understand Iran back-to-front. The West exhibits one particular way of thinking that it deems to represent the essence of that which is Human. Thus a solution involves a complex matrix of issues, rather than a binary dispute between the US and Iran alone.