He followed a line of compromise.
What is ideal, what is achievable and where does that fine line of compromise lie?
But in a front-page story on Wednesday, the paper defended its account and said Zarif's acknowledgement "brought down the line of compromise" with the US.
As labor leaders and Senate Democrats work intensely to cobble together 60 votes in the Senate to salvage a bill that would make it easier to unionize, the lines of possible compromises are taking shape.
Since May, Conservative ministers have comforted themselves that the election result had a silver lining of constructive compromise that has redefined British politics.
Such remarks have made it increasingly complicated for more pragmatic Iranian politicians to offer alternative ideas when it comes to Syria, with state television stressing daily the line of no compromise on Iran's support for Mr. Assad.
"But wait," some of our critics will shout out, "don't you realize that politics is 'the art of the possible' and that you are making the mistake of making 'the best' become the enemy of 'the good-enough'?" This is the standard line of the compromises, and it is based on the false assumption that they, the realists, know what is possible.
But Qatar and Glencore's hardening public opposition had blocked all lines of communication and potential compromise.
In politics he assumed the position of hard-line opponent of any form of compromise with domestic opponents or the international community.
Although lines of communication had been compromised, those supporters were well aware of the human rights violations.
If the "power summit" now scheduled for this week had happened a year ago, one could reasonably have expected a compromise along the lines of the latter alternative -- that is, a compromise that, without trying to wish the shortage away, tries to limit the damage to consumers and the windfall profits to producers.
