Why Was America Forced to Return to the Negotiating Table?
WANA (Feb 07) – Why did Trump, after numerous threats and the gesture of sending an aircraft carrier to the region, eventually retreat toward negotiations with Iran?
When Trump, after all the threats, commotion, and the gesture of attacking Iran, suddenly said, “Because Iran has canceled the executions, for now we have refrained from attacking,” the Leader of the Revolution responded to this game very intelligently. In his first speech after these statements, he explicitly said:
“The Iranian nation has broken the backbone of sedition, and it will also break the backbone of the sedition-monger; neither domestic criminals nor foreign criminals will be let go.”
This stance carried a clear message: “Trump has no cards in his hand.” The Leader of the Islamic Revolution fundamentally discredited the very rope Trump was clinging to in order to escape the high costs of threatening Iran.
From the outset, it was evident that Trump’s claim was illusory, because judicial proceedings in Iran—due to the thorough examination of all aspects of cases—are time-consuming; neither are verdicts issued that quickly, nor are they carried out with such speed. However, this explicit position officially pushed Trump into a corner.
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After this speech, Trump became stuck in a complete deadlock. He neither had the ability to attack—because if such an ability had existed, there would have been no need for a ridiculous excuse to cancel the attack—nor did he have the possibility of retreating honorably from his positions. He had turned the issue into a matter of prestige, without properly calculating the possibility of defeat in this psychological and cognitive war.
For all these threats, military mobilizations, and media atmosphere-building, America needed an achievement; otherwise, nothing but disgrace would have remained for it.
The only way was to return to the path of negotiations so that it could claim that all this commotion “had not been useless.” Iran also agreed to enter negotiations by imposing its own conditions; negotiations that are aimed at lifting the sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Heads to Indirect Nuclear Talks Venue in Muscat. Social media / WANA News Agency
Look at the way the negotiations began: before the negotiations, Trump set conditions, saying that “Iran must fix its relationship with Israel, the United States must determine the location of the negotiations, and the subject of the talks must not be limited to the nuclear issue, and missile and regional issues must also be settled in the way they want.”
But none of these conditions were accepted, and America was forced to retreat. This is exactly the reality of America: a power that only strikes Arnold- and Hercules-like poses, but has no real ability to act.
Trump’s America today is under intense pressure. Over the past year, Trump has had almost no tangible achievements for the American people. Promises have hit dead ends one by one; the Ukraine war did not end in three days, the tariffs against China did not yield results, Yemen was not destroyed, and neither the Greenland issue, Minneapolis, nor the high-profile projects went anywhere.
Venezuela also remains standing with the Maduro government, and on the other side, pressure from the Epstein case has entangled Trump even further.
America today is going through one of its weakest periods. Of course, America is skilled in one thing: “media games and psychological operations.”
Fabrication of lies and fake news production are almost the only tools left to them—tools that ultimately only lead to further discrediting of their officials and media. Nevertheless, we should expect multiple waves of psychological operations regarding the negotiations.
