Between Trump's contradictions and Iran's internal disputes, priorities are starting to take shape

The power struggle playing out in Iran's leadership is not only over questions of war and negotiations, but over the face of the regime's future. Now it must decide whether to turn Hormuz into an ideological cause or to treat it as a bargaining chip in talks

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The power struggle playing out in Iran's leadership is not only over questions of war and negotiations, but over the face of the regime's future. Now it must decide whether to turn Hormuz into an ideological cause or to treat it as a bargaining chip in talks

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Zvi Bar'el

06:02 AM • May 04 2026 IDT

Dialogue between the United States and Iran has regressed to a form of correspondence reminiscent of the era before the invention of the internet or the telephone.

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