Important Points:
- Negotiations between Iran and the United States in Pakistan did not succeed.
- Tehran accused Washington of trying to achieve through negotiations what it couldn’t through war.
- Geopolitical analyst Djilali Benchabane shared his analysis on LCI.
Less than 24 hours of negotiations led to failure. Talks between the United States and Iran in Pakistan ended on Sunday, April 12, 21 hours after they started. The Islamic Republic accused the “evil, dishonest American enemy” of trying to achieve through negotiations what it couldn’t through war.
Behind this statement from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, geopolitical analyst Djilali Benchabane observed on LCI an idea that everything could continue, even through diplomacy, rather than a reluctance to negotiate. “We are really in this logic of reconnecting, trying to find a consensus,” he continued in a sequence that can be found in the video at the top of this article.
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“On the American side, it should be recalled that there was a show of force. But the show of force also showed its limits in the face of the asymmetry put into operation by the Iranians around economic pressure. Now, this economic pressure has become the center of gravity of this conflict,” added the director of CEOS Strategy and Council.
He sees a kind of deadlock in which Donald Trump finds himself, facing the limits of his policy of military escalation with economic risks. “The question is not whether they will achieve a military result. The interlocutors all say they have won. We feel that the goal is to try to find the way to have a roadmap and a way out of the crisis,” Djilali Benchabane concluded.
