{"id":593436,"date":"2026-04-19T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:15:13","slug":"exclusive-iran-keen-on-deal-to-end-war-but-has-higher-pain-tolerance-think-tank-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593436\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Iran keen on deal to end war but has higher \u2018pain tolerance\u2019: think tank chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

The economic toll of war is pushing Iran to find a resolution to the hostilities<\/a> beyond its fragile two-week truce with the US<\/a>, according to a Middle East-focused think tank leader and businessman who is familiar with the status of the negotiations.<\/p>\n

However, as the two long-time enemies tried to stare each other down, the Iranian regime believed that their country\u2019s \u201cpain tolerance\u201d was much higher than the Americans\u2019 and this made it unlikely to blink first, he said.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Mohamed Amersi, a Britain-based Iranian and chairman of the Amersi Foundation, said the Iranians were still keen for a memorandum or framework of understanding to be settled as early as next week.<\/p>\n

Such a deal would extend the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire beyond its expiration on Wednesday. This initial agreement would then pave the way for a more detailed pact to be concluded within two to three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe expectation is that there should be an MOU next week, signed between Iran and the United States primarily. I am not sure Israel will be part of it, although the continued ceasefire in Lebanon will very much be a part of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that will then set the stage for a more detailed agreement which could take two to three months to finalise. And ideally these detailed points are likely to be centre stage at the forthcoming summit between President Xi [Jinping] and President [Donald] Trump in Beijing, if it happens,\u201d Amersi, whose foundation tackles diplomacy and conflict resolution among other issues, said at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The economic toll of war is pushing Iran to find a resolution to the hostilities beyond its fragile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,258768,258767,194400,550,12,801,249801,175828,803,31737,129,258769,3,18231,16236,33670,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-593436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-amersi","tag-antalya-diplomacy-forum","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-beijing","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iranian","tag-islamabad","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-mohamed-amersi","tag-news","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-pakistan","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}