Iran has demoted one of the main negotiators and promoted a hardliner in talks with US

This guy now in charge of talks view is negotiating with the US signifies Iranian defeat.
Which they will never do.

Either Trump walks away, or Trump finishes Iran, maynot be any negotiations possible.
The blockade continues until Iran is ruined worse than it is already.

Security assessment says Iran won't budge, will willingly face years of hardship
Meaning the pain inflicted is insufficient to achieve desired result
Trump should increase the pain, but honestly the NAZI's and Japan also would not have given up except for the ground invasion of Allies troops and the nuclear bomb.

When going to war, you have to count the cost to see if you can finish what you started


He framed Iran’s strategy as a test of endurance shaped by years of economic restrictions and hardship, saying the country believes it can tolerate suffering longer than the U.S. can tolerate economic fallout.

With God and Christ, you must be fully commited, as in all in or it's nothing.
He gives examples in the earthly sphere of that


27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

Not fully committed has it's cost.
Notice also God wants a good relationship with you

13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.