Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced attacks on American military positions in the Middle East. According to the Iranian side, these actions were a direct response to the attack carried out by the US armed forces a few hours before.

Earlier, an American official told CBS News that four targets were hit as a result of US strikes on Iran. the strikes were carried out by six US ground defense planes.

Meanwhile, on June 14, officials of the United States, Iran, and Pakistan acting as a mediator confirmed the achievement of an agreement between Washington and Tehran. It is planned to be signed in Geneva on June 19. As noted in Tehran, within 60 days after the signing of the memorandum, the parties will discuss, among other issues, Tehran’s nuclear program, and from June 15, the US will announce the end of the naval blockade of Iran, as well as the immediate and permanent cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon.

Head of YSU Political Institutes and Processes Chair, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor Garik Keryan According to him, Iran and the United States are going to bilateral negotiations to overcome the conflict and stop the crisis. Although there is already a general agreement that they will go to negotiations, the discussion of each issue is accompanied by great tension.

“Many people say that Iran won, the United States lost, or they say the opposite, both of these extremes are wrong. The truth is that both sides faced a problem, had big losses and now they are trying to overcome the crisis in that format. In other words, it was not the victory that led the two to negotiations, but the losses. Iran was able to use its geopolitical position and close the Strait of Hormuz, bringing the entire West to its knees, because the energy club delivered such a blow that Western strategists simply could not imagine.

Of course, they should have at least basic knowledge of geography, the only mistake was that they calculated that if they destroy Iran’s spiritual leader, the top leadership, there will be chaos in the country, the regime will change, a new leader will be brought in from outside, and Iran will be the same henchman it was before the Islamic Revolution. 168.am–Garik Keryan said in a conversation with

According to him, Iran, in turn, saw that the continuation of the war could really lead to unpredictable consequences, because the losses suffered by Iran’s neighboring states, as well as the EU countries, could lead to a great anti-Iranian consolidation, and after making all these calculations, Iran decided to go to negotiations.

“This is not one of the classic wars that we have seen and which ended with the negotiations of the winner or the loser. Parties that have neither won nor lost will sit at the table here. It is good in the sense that today the pursuit of peace reigns in the goals of both Tehran and Washington, it is bad that neither side has such an obvious advantage to dictate capitulation to the other side. And the equal conditions will lead to more conflict situations or scenarios of failure of negotiations, because each of the parties, not being capitulated, tries to get out with smaller losses,” added our interlocutor.

The political scientist noted that the memorandum of the US-Iran negotiations states what the parties should do, but the road map and the mechanism are still not there.

Furthermore, after Trump came to power, a split was observed in the collective West starting in February 2025. Trump met with Putin in Alaska and at the same time, without asking the opinion of the EU leaders, he started a war in Iran, which led to a certain separation and the strengthening of the position of the Russian side in the Ukrainian exile.

“The Iranian crisis went towards settlement on one side, but it led to the complexity of Russia’s situation. Previously, the Iranian crisis led to an increase in oil prices, which was beneficial to Russia, now the opposite process is going on. We see quite a lot of activation on the Ukrainian front, to the detriment of Russia,” emphasized Garik Keryan.

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