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Iran’s Rejection of US Proposal Shouldn’t Come as a Shock, Given Past Ceasefire Failures in Gaza and Lebanon

Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, weighed in on the US-Iran negotiations and the looming deadline set by Trump. We spoke with him about whether Iran has the time or incentive to reach a comprehensive deal. Here’s what he had to say:

“The Iranians have already responded to the US proposal with their own counteroffer, which Trump has publicly reacted to, albeit in a limited capacity. It remains to be seen whether he will accept it or use it as a starting point for further negotiations.
“However, the US’s proposal itself has been met with rejection, and this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. The history of US and Israeli actions in Gaza and Lebanon, where ‘ceasefires’ were consistently broken and turned into one-sided truces, is a telling precedent. In these instances, the US or Israel used the temporary lull to regroup and relaunch their military campaigns.
“It’s this pattern that has led the Iranians to reject the US proposal, which demands Iran surrender its leverage in the first phase, only to have the US reciprocate in a second phase that never materialized. We’ve seen this scenario play out in Gaza and Lebanon, and it’s clear that the Iranians are not motivated to accept a similar deal. Whether the US will accept the Iranian counteroffer is a separate matter altogether.”

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