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What do the hardliners want?
The hardliners point to failed past deals with the US, including a nuclear agreement signed in 2015 with the Obama administration that Trump later tore up, and they cite the two times that the US attacked the Islamic Republic amid negotiations.
This camp wagers on the Islamic Republic’s endurance, and claim that a policy of confrontation supported by armed regional proxies, missiles, drones and Shia religious belief has guarded the country more effectively than the diplomacy championed by the “Western-oriented” politicians.
“Hardliners concluded they will achieve no deal with Trump and perhaps they’re now just living in the war between the wars,” Vakil said. “They think that they can wear Trump down and they can play for time to weaken him by extending economic pain.
A hardline lawmaker described those advocating for a deal with the US as standing against former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – killed in US-Israeli strikes at the beginning of the war.
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