Why Iran-US negotiations keep failing

Since the war began, several negotiation initiatives have been launched between the United States and Iran. Only the memorandum of understanding signed in Islamabad on June 18 was concluded, and it collapsed within days. Mahjoob Zweiri traces the stalemate to two enduring political complexes: Washington’s after the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, and Tehran’s, shaped by US hostility and Washington’s 2018 withdrawal from the nuclear deal. He dates the rupture back to 1953, when US and British intelligence agencies helped overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh’s nationalist government.