EIGHT is enough, Iran seems to be saying. That is the number of times the Middle Eastern country has been meeting with the European negotiators, who are also negotiating on behalf of the Americans, in the Austrian capital of Vienna to revive the on-again and off-again nuclear pact.
Let's be clear. Iran isn't to be blamed. It was the United States under the errant presidency of Donald Trump which walked away from the oddly named Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement that took years to conclude.
Now it is clear that the temperamental Trump did that on the advice of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a partner in American roguery. This time around, the JCPOA has a new master of mischief: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
The irony is that the rogue Zionist state has 90 nuclear warheads, according to this month's estimate by the Washington-based Arms Control Association. Much of it thanks to the stealthy help of France.
What's more, Israel is the only country in the entire Middle East to be in possession of nuclear weapons. Nuclear-armed states France, the US and the United Kingdom say rogue states must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons. We agree.
By this classification, the US is a rogue state, being the only country to have used nuclear weapons against non-nuclear Japan as early as 1945. Not once, but twice.
To this day, the crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain unpaid in more ways than one.
The US is a rogue state in terms of conventional arms, too. The illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan are but more recent examples of US state roguery. Ditto for the UK and France.
If they use this argument against themselves, which is the right thing to do, the US, the UK and France must denuclearise. But no, they won't. These are all-talk-no-walk nations. There is a rogue in the Middle East, too.
No it's not Teheran, but Tel Aviv. Since its illegal creation in 1948, the Zionist regime has been on a state-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinians.
Over the years, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed and a similar number of homes have been destroyed by Israeli soldiers. And hundreds of thousands of Palestinians now live as refugees elsewhere.
If this isn't the behaviour of a rogue state, what is? The US, the UK, France and Israel miss the irony by a mile.
This is not to say that the JCPOA can't be saved. It can. Here is what the US, UK and the European Union must do. Be just. This means two things.
Firstly, they must live by the rules that they apply to others. An Americanism isn't out of place here: walk the talk.
Two, do not negotiate with a gun pointed at Teheran. Duress goes against the very idea of an agreement. And this includes the economic harm of sanctions.
No country likes to be pressured into signing a deal, even if it is a nuclear pact. The reason why the revival of the JCPOA has taken eight resuscitations is because of coercion from inside and outside. Only rogue states behave like this.
By threatening to go to war with Teheran should the nuclear talks fail, the US, UK and EU are turning Iran into a North Korea. They only have themselves to blame if this comes to pass.