Peter Baker on Iran: They Know That Trump Has Domestic Pressures with the ‘Election’ and May Be Stretching It Out to Maximize Negotiations

RUSH EXCERPT:BAKER: "Yeah, that’s an interesting question. The American side has been saying all along that the Iranian leadership may be fractured, that that may be different, you know, splinters within the leadership, and they’re fighting with each other about what kind of response to make. If that’s the case, it makes it harder to make a deal. Of course, if you don’t know that you have a unified leadership on the other side of the table. We don’t really know that at this point. But you’re right to say that they keep telling us they’re ready for an answer any day now, the president told us, I think middle of last week, it would be within 48 hours. It hasn’t been within 48 hours. And we don’t know for sure what that means. As we were just talking about. Does it mean they’re taking it very seriously or do they think that they’re waiting out Trump? I think that from the Iranian calculation, they don’t think that they’ve lost this war. Right. And they don’t feel the pressure to necessarily make the concessions that the president wants them to make. They see the same, you know, polls that we’re seeing. They understand that he has domestic pressures coming with the election on the horizon, that he wants to get this war over, and they may be stretching it out in order to maximize their negotiating position."

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Peter Baker on Iran: They Know That Trump Has Domestic Pressures with the ‘Election’ and May Be Stretching It Out to Maximize Negotiations‘From the Iranian calculation, they don’t think that they’ve lost this war’News & Politics,InternationalRUSH EXCERPT:BAKER: "Yeah, that’s an interesting question. The American side has been saying all along that the Iranian leadership may be fractured, that that may be different, you know, splinters within the leadership, and they’re fighting with each other about what kind of response to make. If that’s the case, it makes it harder to make a deal. Of course, if you don’t know that you have a unified leadership on the other side of the table. We don’t really know that at this point. But you’re right to say that they keep telling us they’re ready for an answer any day now, the president told us, I think middle of last week, it would be within 48 hours. It hasn’t been within 48 hours. And we don’t know for sure what that means. As we were just talking about. Does it mean they’re taking it very seriously or do they think that they’re waiting out Trump? I think that from the Iranian calculation, they don’t think that they’ve lost this war. Right. And they don’t feel the pressure to necessarily make the concessions that the president wants them to make. They see the same, you know, polls that we’re seeing. They understand that he has domestic pressures coming with the election on the horizon, that he wants to get this war over, and they may be stretching it out in order to maximize their negotiating position."Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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