The Clock Ticks in Iran

The Americans and the Iranians are talking again, but it’s not clear why.

Their backs against the wall, representatives of the Iranian regime acceded in February to the Trump administration’s renewed overtures for talks centered on the future of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear-weapons program. But most of that program is now entombed beneath hundreds of tons of lightly irradiated rubble. There are reportedly few signs that Iran has either the resources or capabilities to recover it.