Leila Gharagozlou: Situation ‘Very Precarious’ as U.S.–Iran Tensions Risk Escalation

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GHARAGOZLOU: “Yeah. So things right now are very precarious. As we heard president Donald Trump says that the U.S. might not need a deal. They might not want a deal, and escalation might be on the horizon. But to really understand where things lay and how things could go, I think it‘s best to always look at what we‘re hearing also from Tehran. And mojtaba khamenei has said that Iran has emerged as a powerful military force, and this really tells us what the thinking is in Iran, where they are coming into any sort of negotiation with what they view as a upper hand and a very strong stance. So they‘re unlikely to capitulate to whatever pressure the U.S. is putting them under. Now. We are we‘ve been in this cease fire for a couple of weeks. The Iranian ports have been blocked as a as a way to put economic pressure on the Iranians and bring them to the table and get them to move a little bit on some of these red lines that they‘ve had in the past."