US-Iran indirect negotiations resumed Thursday in Geneva for a third round, described by Tehran as "intense and serious."
Tehran's playbook is well known © Mena Today
US-Iran indirect negotiations resumed Thursday in Geneva for a third round, described by Tehran as "intense and serious."
A senior Iranian official, speaking anonymously, suggested a framework deal could be within reach , provided Washington agrees to separate nuclear issues from other matters.
A signal Washington would be wise not to take at face value.
The Iranian Trap
Tehran's playbook is well known: isolate the nuclear file to better preserve its other instruments of power, ballistic missiles, proxy networks, regional destabilization. Accepting this separation would amount to offering Iran a partial sanctions exit without demanding any meaningful change in behavior.
That is precisely the trap Washington must avoid.
The United States must hold firm around three non-negotiable, interconnected demands: a complete halt to its military nuclear program, an end to ballistic missile development that threatens the entire Middle East, and a full severance of financial and military support to its proxies : Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.
These three pillars are inseparable. There can be no horse-trading, no isolated concessions. Iran must accept a comprehensive peace package, or face the consequences.
Should diplomacy fail, the military option stays on the table. Washington's massive military deployment in the Gulf is no coincidence. It is a message.
Tehran must choose: the negotiating table or maximum pressure. It cannot have both.
Iran's veteran supreme leader and a host of other top figures and Revolutionary Guards commanders have been killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes but the ruling system has maintained its ability to strategise and operate in the war that began on February 28.
The Trump administration is quietly weighing Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, as a potential partner, and even a future leader, Politico reported on Monday, citing two administration officials.
An Israeli precision strike hit a residential apartment building in Hazmieh - a predominantly Christian neighborhood east of Beirut - Monday afternoon, killing at least one person in what the IDF described as a targeted hit on a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Al-Quds Force.
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