In his article on Macron's failed initiative to restart talk about the JCPOA by having Trump meet with Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, David Ignatius suggested that the gambit failed because Zarif wasn't sufficiently senior (and 'underling' - only Hassan Rohani or better still Ali Khamenei would have been important enough people ) and because Zarif wan't bearing gifts of concession.
All of which make perfect sense, but there's another contributing factor Ignatius overlooked: it wasn't a disruption Trump himself orchestrated. He'd look like he was being manipulated instead of him doing the manipulating. That would have made him a supporting actor in Macron's drama which would never do.
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