The British military said a cargo ship on the new Omani UN-backed route sustained bridge damage from a projectile, hours after the IRGC warned that vessels without Iranian permission were transiting "illegally".

It takes two to negotiate in good faith. Both Iran and the USA need to want peace, external pressure can only go so far in negotiations.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 months ago

    fundamental islamists

    Worse actually. Doomsday cultists to be precise. Not entirely but their influence is very strong in Iran.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hojjatie_Society

    However according to other sources, while the organization may oppose violence and political activity by its own members, it believes disorder and suffering (and sin and violence) are necessary to hasten the appearance of the Mahdi.

    Who is Mahdi?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi

    The Mahdi is said to be a descendant of Muhammad and is believed to appear at the End of Times, shortly before Jesus returns (in Islamic belief), to rid the world of evil and injustice.

    Before his reappearance (Arabic: ظهور, romanized: ẓuhūr), the world will plunge into chaos, where immorality and ignorance will be commonplace, the Qur’an will be forgotten, and religion will be abandoned. There will be plagues, earthquakes, floods, wars and death.

    He is viewed as the sole legitimate ruler of the Muslim world and the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran recognizes him as the head of the state.

    What do you get when a significant regional power wants to hasten the beginning of the apocalypse? Certainly not lasting stability, I believe.