I'm not sure if Iran realizes this, but the USA is in no hurry to be nice to Iran or negotiate. The USA believes Iran is about to collapse, and its goal is regime change. If Iran makes concessions, the USA will simply be more convinced that Iran is collapsing and attack even more.
If one buys a rapist flowers, the rapist will simply get more excited. If one fights, the rapist will be deterred – even if one is physically weaker.
I also believe that Iran is stronger than what Western propaganda depicts. To be frank, I am skeptical about how real the so-called "Axis of Resistance" really is (I judge anything with the word "axis" to be mostly a creation of Western media). I also believe the knowledge of the color revolution strategy to be a strong source of strength for Iran. Finally, I believe that the Iranian government has much more popular support than the West believes. It may not have majority support, but I believe that it has enough to prevent regime change.
Iran is currently passively taking Western non-lethal beatings because they know they are the ones collapsing, on borrowed time, instead, probably waiting for stronger China to disintegrate them, in a final push, in the next few years.
Iran is a byproduct of the US being forced to act on them always due to Israel, whereas China is something that they really want from a survival perspective. Why would they take the lead in their opinion from their, Iranian, perspective?
They look for themselves first I think. Anyways, If Iran was truly about to collapse, then they would have been 10 times more emotional and erratic and urgent in their actions, something akin to current Israel. So, I'm not worried about Iran.
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