‘No intention of negotiating for now,’ says Iranian minister, as US insists conflict objectives nearly met
Who desires what, and why, from US-Iran peace talks?revealed at 22:45 GMT 25 March
Frank Gardner
Security correspondent in Doha
When one facet, the US, says there are ongoing, productive negotiations to finish the conflict and the opposite facet, Iran, says “no, there are not”, then who to imagine?
Messages are definitely being handed from the US to Iran, however not directly, through intermediaries like Pakistan that take pleasure in good relations with each governments. That, after all, isn’t the identical as “negotiations”, which could clarify why an Iranian army spokesman has flatly denied they’re going down.
The indicators are that we at the moment are getting into right into a scenario not dissimilar to the logjam over ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
When this conflict began, there have been excessive hopes in Washington and Jerusalem that the overwhelming army superiority loved by each these two nations over Iran would consequence within the inevitable collapse of the Islamic Republic.
That has not occurred. So what the US and Israel need, they could not essentially get, as day by day the Iranian regime survives it feels extra emboldened.
Meanwhile, the Gulf Arabs are dismayed by what has occurred. They have watched in horror because the US has given this conflict its finest shot and did not convey down the Iranian regime, as a substitute leaving it wounded and indignant, lashing out at its neighbours.
Iran believes it has each time and geography on its facet and the extra the White House tells the world that Iran is determined for a deal, the much less inclined Iran is to make one.
