‘No war, no peace’: Can Iran break the deadlock with the US?
Sustainable stalemate or slow-motion strangulation? The current ‘equilibrium’ is inherently unstable, experts say.
![Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf gives a press conference at an event marking 40 days since the burial of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Imam Hassan al-Mujtaba Mosque in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala on August 20, 2026. [Karar Jabbar/AFP]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/AFP__20260820__C66784N__v1__HighRes__IraqIranPoliticsDiplomacyReligionIslamShia-1787255506.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Sustainable stalemate or slow-motion strangulation? The current ‘equilibrium’ is inherently unstable, experts say.
![Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf gives a press conference at an event marking 40 days since the burial of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Imam Hassan al-Mujtaba Mosque in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala on August 20, 2026. [Karar Jabbar/AFP]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/AFP__20260820__C66784N__v1__HighRes__IraqIranPoliticsDiplomacyReligionIslamShia-1787255506.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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