Iran has given the international community little reason to trust it since the 1979 revolution that led to the establishment of the Islamic Republic. Negotiations to end the war today would be dangerously premature, naive, and likely to produce an outcome that all but guarantees another war.
ABU DHABI—Diplomatic instinct suggests that, when conflicts intensify, parties should head to the negotiating table. That impulse might be rooted in genuine moral concern, but there are times when heeding it is dangerous. Now is just such a time: negotiations to end the Iran war today would be dangerously premature, naive, and likely to produce an outcome that all but guarantees another war.