How Iran-US Talks Can Avoid Versailles Syndrome

If there’s one foreign-policy issue on which Europe could have claimed frontline status, it’s Iran. But those days are over. The nuclear deal signed by major European powers a decade ago lies in tatters. This year’s ill-fated US war on Iran saw continental allies relegated to the sidelines while suffering its economic consequences. And although the US-Iran talks were announced with fanfare in Versailles, that’s about it for European Union involvement, even if NATO’s Mark Rutte says the bloc is “