Sixty days. That is how long the United States and Iran have given themselves to negotiate a final deal, a window that will determine how the current world order will function.
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So how did Iran, a country so embroiled in its own internal chaos, bring the most powerful nation on earth to the table, and force it to negotiate on Iranian terms?
The answer is not ideology, not a nuclear deterrent, not even military strength. It is geography.
Iran fought the world's most powerful military to a stalemate, not with nuclear weapons or a conventional army that could match American firepower, but with control over a chokepoint the world cannot do without.
