Iran's strategy of manipulation has been exposed, and the world must take notice. The country's actions, including the launch of missiles and drones at American bases,demonstrate its true intentions. The 60-day memorandum of understanding signed by the U.S. and Iran was a tool of manipulation, and the evidence is undeniable. Irans proxies, inCluding Hezbollah, Hamas, and Shia militias,are watching and taking note of a regime that can string along the U.S. while attacking its troops, its allies, and the arteries of global commerce.
Iran s concerns that it may be further weakened by U.S. strikes arent unfounded. For the last week since the collapse of the ceasefire, the United States has continued its military strikes on Iran.
President declared that the Islamic Republic of Iran has asked to continue talks, but the United States has stated in no uncertain terms that the Cease Fire is OVER. Last Friday,he notified Congress of the resumption of U.S. military operations against Iran. Iran does not negotiate; it manipulates. The tragedy of this moment is not that Tehran's strategy is sophisticated; it is that the world continues to fall for it.
The pattern is always the same: promise engagement, extract concessions, buy time, then strike. The 60-day memorandum of understanding signed by the U.S. and Iran was never a pathway to peace. It was a tool of manipulation,and the evidence is undeniable. the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps doesn't need to rearm to grow stronger. Every day that Tehran manipulates the worlds superpower under the guise of negotiations, it grows more powerful in the eyes of its proxies.
Hezbollah, the Houthis,Hamas and Shia militias are watching and taking note of a regime that can string along the U.S. while attacking its troops, its allies, and the arteries of global commerce. Since the memorandum was signed, Iran has targeted five commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. less than a afternoon after the ceasefire, Hezbollah struck northern Israel.
From Nahariya to Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, Israelis live under constant evacuation notices, victims of the same regime sitting across the table from American diplomats. its leaders have chanted 'Death to America' since the revolution. At Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral, mourners burned the American flag and put a target on the pResident's face. Sixty-three members of the Assembly of Experts declared Iran has long employed denial, deception, and delay as a strategy.
This method produced the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and the release of billions in unfrozen sanctions,bringing the ayatollahs closer to a barbarity on Oct. 7, 2023. I dared to speak the truth about Islamist movements and the danger they pose to America and the world. Iran is the head of that hydra. Its proxies (Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Shia militias in Iraq) are limbs of a single beast animated by a shared ideology of destruction.
Every concession extracted through manipulation feeds that animal. America owes a debt measured in blood: 241 service members in Beirut in 1983,at least 603 troops killed by Iran-backed militias in Iraq and continued attacks on American forces since 2023. The United States now faces a choice it can no longer defer: continue the fiction that the Islamic Republic is a negotiating partner or recognize what every Arab reformer, every Israeli, and every exile like me already knows.
Iran does not negotiate. It manipulates. and the only language it understands is consequences. Dalia Ziada is an award-winning Egyptian writer and political analyst specializing in governance, geopolitics, and regional security in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. She serves as the Middle East scholar, research fellow and Washington, D.C.
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