Iran Will Enter Nuclear Talks Feeling Emboldened

“In the days after Iran and the United States reached a preliminary agreement to pause their war, Iranian politicians, generals, and clerics from a range of political factions described the deal as a victory that showed Tehran’s resilience against a far more powerful enemy,” the New York Times reports.

“That is the position Iran’s leaders are pushing even though the country lost a slew of its top political and military figures, suffered a battering to its stock of ballistic missiles and was left with an economy — which was already struggling — strained even further by a naval blockade.”