Iran to attend 2nd round of talks with US despite Strait of Hormuz hostilities: Pakistani sources
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/iran-to-attend-2nd-round-of-talks-with-us-despite-strait-of-hormuz-hostilities-pakistani-sources/3911849
Posted by ub3rm3nsch
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My take:
Trump just get exposed by the WSJ as trying to sound as crazy as possible for a negotiating strategy. He has a consistent TACO record on the back of that. Yet here come the Iranians to the negotiating table (as reported by AA), yet again.
It has honestly surprised me how much Iran has given away to get absolutely nothing in return. They opened the Strait of Hormuz briefly for what? Did the US withdraw from CENTCOM? No. Did the US accept Iran’s right to a nuclear program? No. Did Iran get reparations? No.
Iran has seemingly consistently negotiated against itself. The only thing they are demanding for the Strait to be open now is a withdrawal of the blockade. The US still apparently gets to maintain an attack posture in CENTCOM, and given the US attacked Iran **twice during negotiations** and assassinated a bunch of Iranian leaders, it is pretty dumb of the Iranians to think “this time is different”.
If anything, opening Hormuz emboldens Trump more, because it eases pressure on the markets, which is the only thing providing any sort of restraint on Trump’s continued desire to overthrown the Islamic regime, seize Iran’s oil, and install a pro-US regime that will redirect oil flows from China to the US and the west.