Bloomberg<\/a>, the ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran have reached a point where the chances of securing a diplomatic breakthrough are gradually diminishing, reflecting the complex politico-military situation in the region.<\/p>\nAccording to former officials, the differences between the warring parties are deep, and their political demands and conditions are strictly incompatible. This prevents effective negotiations, causing military operations to turn into a prolonged standoff.<\/p>\n
For the US and its allies, the political and economic price of the conflict is rising steadily. The likelihood of achieving a definitive military victory in the long run is becoming uncertain, while the volume of military resources and supplies is placing severe pressure on the forces involved.<\/p>\n
Despite airstrikes and pressure, Iran preserves a significant portion of its production capacities for missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as its weapons stockpiles. Tehran’s main goal remains preserving the regime and making the conflict as costly as possible for the US in geopolitical and economic terms.<\/p>\n
Experts note that the conflict could turn into a protracted “middle ground” where there is neither a comprehensive peace agreement nor a complete military victory by either side. This creates a new and unstable reality for regional security.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has warned that finding a diplomatic solution to resolve the military conflict between the US and Iran is becoming increasingly difficult by the day, while avenues for a quick or “clean” exit from the war have all but vanished. According to Bloomberg, the ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":304503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304512,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304511\/revisions\/304512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}