U.S. Intelligence Assesses New Strikes on Iran Unlikely to Change Tehran's Position

U.S. intelligence agencies assess that a new round of military strikes on Iran is unlikely to have a major effect on the country or soften its negotiating stance, according to U.S. intelligence reporter John Hudson. According to Odaily, current and former officials said Tehran and Washington remain in an indefinite stalemate between war and peace, as the increasingly deadly cycle of hostile actions between the two sides continues. U.S. intelligence analysts also said such assessments are not intended to make specific predictions about the future. Instead, they provide a summary of current and possible future trends based on all available classified intelligence, including human sources and technical collection, as well as public information.