Iran Tells Washington the Era of One-Sided Agreements Is Over

As the fighting resumed, Iran signaled how it intends to negotiate. The head of Iran's negotiating team said "the era of one-sided agreements is over," and told the United States it must either meet its commitments or "pay the price of not doing so," Iran's state news agency IRNA reported. Tehran separately warned Washington of consequences for violating their understandings, Russia's RIA Novosti reported.

Iran is also pursuing diplomacy. It thanked Pakistan for abstaining from a vote that allowed a United Nations Security Council session on its nuclear program to proceed, while rejecting the meeting itself as "legally unfounded," Dawn reported. The appeal to a non-Western state that abstained reflects Tehran's strategy of securing partial support among governments unwilling to fully back Western pressure.

Israeli commentators read the framework deal that preceded this collapse as a strategic error by Washington that left the underlying dispute unresolved, an assessment carried in Israel's Globes. The competing narratives are clear. Tehran presents itself as the party enforcing a broken bargain, while Washington and its partners present Iran as the party that reopened the conflict.