How does Iran’s leadership view the emerging deal with the US?

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s leadership has not closed the door on a potential deal with the United States, but more hawkish voices on both sides are pushing for demands that are making any understanding elusive . More than three months after the start of the war, Washington and Tehran are yet to agree on how to handle international transit through the Strait of Hormuz following Iran’s insistence on controlling the waterway and the US blockade of Iran’s ports. It is also unclear if the two sides can reach a longer-term deal on nuclear enrichment and the buried highly enriched uranium in Iran, or on the lifting of US and United Nations sanctions on Iran. The US military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been trading fire over recent days, with Tehran accusing Washington of repeated violations of the ceasefire reached in early April. Israeli media reported online that an explosion on Sunday night in an apartment building in Tehran’s Andisheh was a targeted assassination of an IRGC general, but the Iranian media said it was a gas leak. Iran’s top military, religious and political leaders and institutions continue to emphasise that there will be no “surrender” amid deep distrust towards the US , but subtle differences between their postures persist. …