Why the US-Iran Peace Deal Falling Apart Wasn’t All Trump’s Fault
Government inquiries traced the ship attack to fringe hardliners, exposing deep divisions in Iran’s leadership and reigniting hostilities with the United States.
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned an attack by Iranian forces on three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, which sparked international outrage and internal conflict within Iran's leadership.
- The attack was linked to Hossein Taeb, a cleric and former intelligence chief who opposed the US peace deal, and was carried out by commanders empowered to act without central approval.
- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has been absent publicly since taking office, leading to leadership disputes and uncertainty about whether he authorized the attacks.
- Iranian officials are divided between resuming US negotiations or escalating attacks to end the US naval blockade, with hardliners favoring confrontation and rejecting concessions in talks.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Why the US-Iran peace deal falling apart wasn’t all Trump’s fault
The US president has so far failed to find a way to get Iran to agree to a permanent agreement, and a fringe group inside the Iranian regime may be the reason for that.
Iranian extremists, hostile to any agreement with the US, have thwarted the agreement by a clandestine attack on ships in the Hormuz Strait, claims sources inside the regime. Iran's president was furious when he found out.
Hardliners in Iran's ruling circles deliberately disrupted the truce with the United States in early July by ordering the opening of fire on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz, unbeknownst to Iranian President Maksoud Peseshkian, writes The New York..
Hardliners in Iran's ruling circles deliberately disrupted the truce with the United States in early July by ordering three ships to open fire in the Strait of Hormuz, unbeknownst to Iranian President Maksoud Peseshkian, The New York Times reported...
A deep and dangerous internal conflict is allegedly behind the sharp deterioration in relations between Iran and the United States, according to information cited by Newsbeast from a report in the "New York Times". The focus is now not only on the confrontation with Washington, but also on the battle for the direction that the ... The article What is happening in Tehran? The dangerous internal conflict that led to the "wreck" of the Agreement wi…
In violation of the interim truce between the United States and Iran, supporters of the American war line are guilty, writing The New York Times, citing "eight Iranian officials, three members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, four former officials", as well as an analysis of "tens of speeches and comments by government officials and military personnel" dated from June to September.
The ultra-conservatives would have ordered without informing the civilian and military summits an operation against three merchant ships in Hormuz to blow up the new negotiations with Washington An operation conducted in secret to blow up the dialogue with Washington. This is the reconstruction of the New York Times on the failure of the peace agreement reached in recent months between Iran [...]
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