After everything that has happened, Iran cannot trust any deals.
Iran will not reopen the strait until the whole world knows that attacking Iran is not worth it. They need to inflict enough pain so that decades from now future US presidents remember what happened.
This is true, but they aren’t in a position to trust any peace deal with the US and Israel. Their thinking, which I would agree with, is that any ceasefire or peace deal will just be buying time to rebuild the stocks, get everything in position, and start this up again in 6 months to a year. They are treating this as an existential war
After everything that has happened, Iran cannot trust any deals.
Iran will not reopen the strait until the whole world knows that attacking Iran is not worth it. They need to inflict enough pain so that decades from now future US presidents remember what happened.
We are a long way from that.
Iran is also suffering. The purpose of a deal is to end suffering for everyone.
This is true, but they aren’t in a position to trust any peace deal with the US and Israel. Their thinking, which I would agree with, is that any ceasefire or peace deal will just be buying time to rebuild the stocks, get everything in position, and start this up again in 6 months to a year. They are treating this as an existential war
But with the security guarantee I mentioned, the US and Israel won’t attack again. Surely, Iran trusts Russia.
Trusts them to go to war against Israel and America for them? I don’t think so.
Yes, because Russia would not want a US controlled Iran. The US would be able to manipulate the price of oil which would affect Russia.