SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The shift from the rhetoric of "destroying Iran" to "an agreement on the table" in American discourse did not come out of nowhere.

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Hassan Ahmadian حسن احمدیان

Translated from Arabic

The shift from the rhetoric of "destroying Iran" to "an agreement on the table" in American discourse did not come out of nowhere.

The Iranian conditions that were preliminarily agreed upon in the past did not allow Trump to emerge with an image of victory, so after the preliminary agreement, he backtracked on them and sent his amendments to Tehran via intermediaries.

Iran did not respond to him; instead, it kept him in a state of suspense and waiting throughout the past days, and even demonstrated to him its readiness to resume the war by striking Israel first and downing the Apaches second—to tell him through its signals: You cannot change the reality of your military failure with a fan.

Therefore, he attempted to pressure it militarily in tandem with the presence of intermediaries in Tehran, but Tehran responded to him on the two nights of escalation by striking twice the number of targets he had struck in Iran. And with this, he lost hope of forcing Tehran to accept what he wants.

As for the announcement of an agreement after all that, it is an announcement of a retreat to what was agreed upon previously, and it is a diplomatic translation of his military failure above all else. If the framework agreement is indeed signed—we are facing the beginning of a new era in Iran and the region. And this terrifies some and delights others in the region, as it clearly reveals the loser and the winner. More to come in the coming days.