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Iran's IRGC suspended US-Iran negotiations on June 1 because suspension serves its strategic interests better than any available deal. The Lebanon demand, emphasised publicly as the precondition for resuming talks, functions as cover for positions Iran cannot openly state: it will retain its highly
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The US-Iran nuclear talks have not stalled on a sequencing dispute. They have reached a structural deadlock: Iran's government has publicly committed to directing any unfrozen assets toward ballistic missile and drone reconstitution, and its supreme leader declared victory over the United States in
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Iran is not trying to collect fees from vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It is trying to normalize the fact that it grants permission. The fee is a signal; the transit protocol is the prize. And by the time enough ships are moving through the corridor Iran designed and administers, the quest