Unsurprisingly following Israel’s largest-ever military strikes against Iran over the weekend, none of the scheduled talks for Sunday between the Islamic Republic and the U.S. over a new Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, or colloquially ‘the nuclear deal’) took place. Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said that: “The other side [the U.S.] acted in a way that makes dialogue meaningless [...] You cannot claim to negotiate and at the same time divide work by allowing the Zionist regime…