>>18384
The US was offering them loads of money and in the end the war hurts Iran too. They're not going to double down if there's an attractive alternative on the table while they've already won the major political wins. It also helps Iran to be seen as a reasonable party here. Trump has been absolutely trashing the USA's reputation when it keeps turning out that he's the party responsible for the situation repeatedly going to shit because he repeatedly couldn't observe red lines like "don't fucking attack during a ceasefire." USA's political capital with Europe is steadily deteriorating thanks to his fucked handling of the situation, so it's been benefiting Iran nicely to repeatedly seem the more reasonable and trustworthy party. Iran is making a huge bid to reestablish international diplomatic credibility here, while backing it with credible military force.
Also, it's more time to rebuild and prepare for a resumption of hostilities, should it happen. They are going into this with eyes wide open and minimal trust. Iran is basically stacking the deck so that any outcome favors them. Either diplomacy succeeds and Iran looks reasonable while getting a good deal at the USA's expense or Iran humiliates the USA more militarily, ends sanctions by force (they're not going to let sanctioning countries through the Strait of Hormuz), and gets the USA kicked out to forcibly end hostilities. The latter is costlier (especially thanks to the risk of infrastructure damage) but they are still building up to better the odds of coming out on the winning end of that equation also.
Iran building a nuclear weapon is another humiliation for the USA. Trump's big "win" evaporated into a worse than nothing outcome and Iran can credibly point to the utter lack of trust in any security promises made by the USA as a reason why Iran feels that it cannot trust anything other than its own deterrence capabilities when dealing with extremely belligerent powers that repeatedly cross all red lines (USA and Israel). But Iran couldn't do that as credibly if it hadn't seriously tried the diplomatic process. Now it has ceasefire and MoU violations aplenty to point to in order to justify its decision.
It is true that there is somewhat of an internal power struggle though and that dragging things out hurts the USA more if no agreement is made in the end. And once again, dragging it out in ways that you can repeatedly blame USA for makes the situation politically advantageous for Iran.
>>18389
Israel has a serious manpower shortage (it's active in too many fronts at the same time and risking collapse) and enough women that are on board with Israel's bullshit warmongering. And guns, rockets, and combat vehicles have been a great gender equalizer in warfare.