Iran Foreign Ministry: US Is 'Struggling' as Thursday Deadline Approaches

📺 TEHRAN — Iran's spokesman calls the US 'struggling' hours before Thursday. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: 'Struggling' is domestic victory framing, not a negotiating signal. Tehran's spokesman speaks for public audiences — this language tells Iranians the pause is weakness extracted from the US. That makes any deal harder to sell without a face-saving formula. Variable: whether this contradicts Araghchi's back-channel or is deliberately coordinated with it.