New Delhi, July 2 -- TEHRAN - When Mojtaba Khamenei released his written statement on June 18, one day after the Islamabad MoU was signed, his approval came pre-loaded with the conditions of its own reversal.

"If the American side wants to be greedy, they will not accept it."

That construction accomplishes three things simultaneously. It authorizes the diplomatic process Iran is running in Doha. It transfers accountability for the deal's success or failure to the executive branch and the officials who pledged their names to the outcome. And it establishes a criterion, American "greed," that the supreme leader defines and against which any Phase 2 outcome can be measured. The burial of Ali Khamenei, running from July 4 through July 9 and...