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When is this two-month deadline for a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal? It isn't clear whether the two-month clock began from the time Trump’s letter was delivered to Iran ( by Wikoff to Araghchi via UAE president Mohammed Bin Zaye), or from the time the negotiations started. But then I found a reference in JINSA: “June 11 marks, by the most conservative interpretation, President Donald Trump’s self-imposed two-month deadline for a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal.”
It is quite bizarre that the White House never explicitly stated the date. It may give some flexibility, but this fuzzy approach takes away from the significance of the moment. After all, Austria’s ultimatum to Serbia demanded an answer by July 25, 1914 at 5 pm and Chamberlain's ultimatum to Germany put September 3, 1939 at 11 am as the time a state of war would exist between Great Britain and Germany unless Germany withdrew their troops from Poland.