Iran Stands Firm, U.S. Resorts to Underhanded Tactics
The preliminary outcome of U.S.-Iran negotiations has now emerged.
Originally scheduled for just one day, the talks actually spanned three rounds, lasting over 15 hours in total.
However, according to information disclosed by various media outlets, the negotiations on the 11th achieved almost no significant breakthroughs. The gap between the respective demands of the U.S. and Iran remains substantial. Iran’s four core conditions—lifting U.S. sanctions, compensating Iran for wartime losses, recognizing Iran’s management mechanism over the Strait of Hormuz, and achieving comprehensive regional ceasefire—received no response from the U.S.
In contrast, the United States engaged in numerous behind-the-scenes maneuvers during the talks. For instance, it dispatched destroyers through the Strait of Hormuz, attempting to challenge Iran’s control over the strait via military action—but failed. After receiving warnings from Iran, the U.S. warships retreated back into the Arabian Sea.
This move by the U.S. precisely reveals its limited leverage at the negotiation table, forcing it to resort to such "outside-the-game" tactics to exert pressure.
Meanwhile, Iran has remained resolute in defending its core demands. Both sides are effectively demonstrating hardline stances to their domestic audiences, asserting that they have not compromised.
This has led to a delicate deadlock: while surface-level contact between the U.S. and Iran continues, tensions have not eased.
At the same time as the U.S.-Iran negotiations, Israel's bombing campaign against Lebanon shows no sign of ending—on the 11th, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reported that Israeli attacks had resulted in over 2,020 deaths and more than 6,000 injuries.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1862250965735436/
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