Negotiating with Punches!

For a few days, American-Israeli strikes on Iran will continue, before negotiators return from the boxing ring to the negotiating table with bleeding noses and broken teeth. After that, it will be possible to "soften" positions to make concessions to obtain preferential prices from Iran, which has reduced its enrichment to 20 percent instead of sixty. However, Trump's desire is for zero enrichment, which Iran rejected, leading to an acceleration of the confrontation whose signs were clear. The American goal behind the comprehensive strikes initiated by Washington, with the help of Tel Aviv, which gave the confrontation a biblical dimension days before its celebration of "Purim," and what it carries in terms of connotations related to the myth of historical animosity towards the Persian state, is to clip the regime's claws and weaken it. It was clear that Trump had tied himself to mobilizing ships, warships, and aircraft carriers, and he could not back down without an agreement that would give him a greater victory than Obama achieved. Will Tehran, after these strikes, double the work of its centrifuges and declare possession of nuclear weapons, especially since it has technologies capable of achieving its goal, as Witkoff hinted in statements in which he expressed his fear of Tehran's concealment of much larger quantities of enriched uranium than those it declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency? Witkoff's fear means that the American "Armada" has arrived late; while Trump announced the killing of the Supreme Leader and Israeli planes bombed civilian targets, including a girls' school, during which dozens of female students were killed, the "yellowcake" may have settled in fortified bunkers.