Israeli Think Tank: US Has Diplomatic Weakness Against Iran

Analysis by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs indicates that America's military and economic superiority does not necessarily translate into diplomatic superiority; diplomacy, contrary to common perception, is not naturally a domain of great powers, but rather an arena where weaker actors can gain the upper hand through patience, timing, psychological understanding of the other party, and leveraging the invisible rules of negotiation. Iran, relying on a tradition of statecraft, historical experience of pressure, and a culture of multilayered negotiation, confronts America, which has repeatedly found itself at an impasse at the negotiating table due to excessive confidence in hard power, political timelines, and incomplete understanding of diplomatic logic. Iran enters the arena not from a position of material power equal to America's, but from a position of understanding negotiation rules, managing time, exploiting political divisions within the opposing side, and capitalizing on the reputational costs to Washington. America enters negotiations with enormous power, but when it fails to correctly understand the rules of the game, that power alone is insufficient.. /Jomhuri-ye Eslami

# Israeli Think Tank: US Suffers from Diplomatic Weakness Against Iran