Erika Solomon
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Apr
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Publicly, Iran is trying to send the signals that their participation is not a given.
Privately, we are hearing that Iranian officials are still planning to try to make it to the talks in Pakistan this week.
Experts that I've spoken to are saying that there are two main pressures that are driving this kind of mixed messaging we're hearing from Iranian officials.
One is internal.
There is a huge, very emboldened base in Iran that feels like they won this war.
They survived U.S.
and Israeli bombardment.
They managed to basically close the Strait of Hormuz to the global oil trade.
They're going out waving rifles, flags, and they've been saying, like, no surrender, no capitulation.
This is the base that kind of underpins the government.
They have to find a solution that makes these people feel like they're not just giving up.
The second and most argued more important issue is President Trump himself.
He has been putting out a lot of threatening statements, vowing that he could go forward with bombing the country's infrastructure.
So they feel like Trump is trying to push them into a corner.
And they don't even fully trust yet that the Americans are actually going to negotiate in good faith.
They still have a little bit of anxiety they could get attacked by Israel or the United States while they're heading to negotiations or on their way back.
So the trust is so incredibly low from the Iranian perspective.
It's just...
It's hard to exaggerate, you know, just how wary they are, in spite of the fact that they very much want to go to talks and make a deal.
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