Lack of mutual trust means a strategic miscalculation could trigger renewed conflict at any moment, analysts say
3-MIN READ3-MINCao Jiaxuanin BeijingPublished: 9:00pm, 14 Apr 2026Negotiating teams from America and Iran could return to Islamabad as early as the end of this week, days after 21 hours of talks in the Pakistani capital ended without a deal, Reuters reported.
US President Donald Trump on Monday said that “we’ve been called by the other side” and “they want to work a deal”.
But they warned that the path forward hinged on how pragmatically both sides adjusted their expectations, with a lack of mutual trust meaning a strategic miscalculation could trigger renewed conflict at any moment.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s lead negotiator and speaker of the country’s parliament, said no deal had been reached because Washington failed to win Tehran’s trust.
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