However, Iran's actions suggest otherwise; it's simply that Iran is always ready to engage the US in conflict, from maintaining a ceasefire to resuming hostilities, while simultaneously forcing the US into peace talks under Iran's preconditions.
While Iran's stance on whether to continue the war or hold peace talks with the US has remained largely unchanged, the US's views on whether to continue the war or hold peace talks with Iran have been contradictory, particularly in recent days.
President Donald Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Robio have repeatedly asserted that the war is over and the US has achieved its objectives, but at the same time have threatened to drag Iran to "hell" if it does not meet US conditions.
President Donald Trump announced the launch of a US Navy operation to escort ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz out of the strait, only to reverse course just two days later. The US President expressed dissatisfaction with Iran's response to his offer of negotiations but enthusiastically declared that talks with Iran were progressing positively. Donald Trump also hinted at sending US troops to raid Iran to search for and recover highly enriched uranium.
Behind these contradictory statements from the US side lies not a new strategy or tactic to turn the tide of the war, but rather the difficult and awkward situation faced by Donald Trump and his associates both domestically and internationally. Simultaneously, it reveals a strategic stalemate on both sides. Specifically, neither side wants, and to a certain extent, dares, to continue the war on the same scale and intensity as before, yet neither has found a way to truly end the war without damaging their reputation and prestige, without being seen as defeated and weak.
There are currently three core issues that both sides must resolve, closely related but requiring different solutions. First, maintaining a ceasefire for peace talks or continuing the war to force each other into talks. Second, blockading or de-escalating the Strait of Hormuz. Third, including Iran's nuclear and missile programs on the agenda of peace talks between the two sides to end the war, or separating them into two distinct frameworks, negotiating an end to the war first and then negotiating on Iran's nuclear and missile programs later.
Iran needs a ceasefire to curb Donald Trump and his radical allies ' military actions, to gain time to consolidate its military capabilities and maintain its defensive posture, and also to separate the two negotiating frameworks in order to preserve its strategic trump card: its missile and nuclear programs and control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump needs peace talks with Iran because of his declining military advantage. The US cannot relieve pressure on the Strait of Hormuz through military force, and war would only make it harder to resolve all three issues, while internal difficulties would only worsen and his personal prestige in the US would decline.
Domestic public disapproval of a US war with Iran, the economy is negatively impacted, and the risk of the Republican Party losing the upcoming US midterm congressional elections continues to increase. The problem now is that neither side is willing to make concessions to the other.
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