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“This war has neither altered the state of play on the ground when it comes to Iranian capabilities nor Iranian calculations, in terms of the intentions and their redlines on the nuclear program,” says Ellie Geranmayeh, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa programme and senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “What this war has done is actually give Iran more ammunition in the way of a weapon of mass disruption with its hold over the Strait of Hormuz, which has now become the focus of what Iran wants to talk with the U.S., and it is pushing away nuclear discussions in the latest efforts by Pakistan over the last two weeks. So this is a real conundrum for the U.S.” Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/WCYsH7 This work represents the views and opinions solely of the author. The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher, and takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. Visit the CFR website: http://www.cfr.org Follow CFR on X: http://www.twitter.com/cfr_org Follow CFR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/councilonforeignrelations/