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Bolton: US-Israel Strikes Left Iran Too Decapitated to Negotiate Peace

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Bolton: US-Israel Strikes Left Iran Too Decapitated to Negotiate Peace

🎖️ TEHRAN — The hawks aren't worried Iran won't negotiate; they're saying it can't. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Bolton's framing inverts the standard concern: not Iranian unwillingness but structural incapacity. Leadership strikes removed the chain of authority needed to authorize concessions. If true, Thursday's Trump address has no counterpart to receive it — and any Gulf mediator carrying a proposal has no verified interlocutor on the other side.

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