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Why Iran-US negotiations keep failing
A political-psychological 'syndrome' born of decades of hostility, not the fine print of agreements, explains why Iran-US talks keep collapsing, according to this analysis. Washington's complex, rooted in the 1979 embassy siege, demands Iranian concessions first; Tehran's, rooted in the 2018 US exit from the nuclear deal, demands binding guarantees first. Even as the substantive gap has narrowed, the deadlock has become structural.