Even as the U.S. and Israel escalate their war against Iran, talk of negotiations continues to persist. Israeli journalist Barak Ravid—whom the Iranians regard with suspicion because, they say, he is a veteran of IDF intelligence Unit 8200—claims in Axios this morning that “Progress has been made in the past 24 hours in the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, though reaching a ceasefire deal by President Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline still looks like a long shot.”
“The key challenges at the moment are meeting Iran’s demand for a strong guarantee that the U.S. and Israel won’t just resume the war after a pause, and the slow pace of responses from Iranian leadership due to the security situation, sources say,” Ravid adds.
