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The Stalemate Iran Prefers

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 Protocol Is the Point

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