Blunt threats, on the one hand; encouraging stories of progress in negotiations, on the other. The United States and Iran maintain the ambiguous script that has guided their contacts since the current ceasefire came into force on April 8. This Tuesday it was the turn of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to warn of possible retaliation, after the US military’s attacks on military targets in southern Iran on Monday night. Washington, for his part, insisted that the . Both are careful, in their actions and statements, not to reach a point where the peace talks, which the White House considers are already in the final stretch, are broken.
