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Iran’s Nuclear Talks Mask a Brewing Crisis and Growing Unrest at Home

By National Security Desk | February 22, 2026

While Iran signals willingness to meet with U.S. envoys on nuclear talks, internal opposition surges amid brutal crackdowns, exposing Tehran’s instability and the urgent stakes for American national security.

As Iran’s top diplomat hinted at another meeting with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in Geneva, the façade of diplomatic progress conceals a nation teetering on the edge of chaos. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi recently declared a "good chance" remains for resolving the nuclear dispute through talks focused solely on uranium enrichment — a claim that strains credibility given Tehran’s long record of deception. Can Diplomacy Succeed Amidst Growing Domestic Turmoil? On the streets of Tehran and Mashhad, defiant university students commemorate fallen protesters from mass demonstrations violently suppressed just weeks ago — protests that resulted in thousands dead and tens...

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