Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
The Ettinger Report, June 9, 2025
“Notwithstanding the signed JCPOA, the Ayatollah regime persisted in the development of nuclear capabilities, while bolstering its anti-US conventional and ballistic capabilities.”
US negotiation vs. Iranian negotiation
A self-destructive step undertaken by US negotiators has been the assumption that negotiation with the Ayatollah regime (and any other terroristic regime) can be based on Western negotiation tactics.
Contrary to US negotiation tactics, which aim to advance reconciliation, the Ayatollah regime’s 1,400-year-old negotiation tactics are driven by a vision, which mandates the crushing/subjugation of the “infidel.”
While US negotiation tactics strive for a binding accord, the Ayatollah regime’s negotiation tactics strive for a tentative accord, to be abrogated whenever politically or militarily opportune.
US negotiators tend to focus on future (speculative?) scenarios, as well as statements made by Iranian negotiators, rather than on the Ayatollah regime’s (well-documented) rogue track record, fanatical ideology, the 1979 Constitution and books written by Ayatollah Khomeini – the Supreme Founding Leader – which have driven the Ayatollah regime since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Since 1978/79, US negotiation with the Ayatollah regime have failed to moderate the regime, while yielding a powerful tailwind, dramatically bolstering the anti-US capabilities of the Ayatollah regime. ….SOURCE