and to reestablish links with the outside world. just bashing economic sanctions notably those of the united nations and the embargo were factors that brought us to the negotiating table. in. but there's another reason why the leader accented nuclear negotiations the memory of the green movement of two thousand and nine. following the widely disputed reelection in june of the ultra conservative mahmoud ahmadinejad as president of the republic the people demanded the vote be overturned. the islamic republic was feeling the pressure. but the supreme leader refused to give in to the demonstrators he up held up medina