Iran said it has closed the Strait of Hormuz for shipping transit due to what it called a violation of the ceasefire by Israel, even as it dispatched a negotiating team to Switzerland for prospective peace talks with the U.S. Read More
TRUMP HEIGHTS — As the sound of Israeli artillery shells echoed around their hilltop homes close to Lebanon, residents of Trump Heights struggled to hide their dismay at the deal to end the war with Iran, but were not giving up on their hero in the White House. Read More
Optimists like me had hoped this war would lead to a recalibrated Middle East, focused on peace and the Abraham Accords. Sadly, the Trump deal is silent about Iran’s development of ballistic missiles that caused millions of Israelis to run for shelter over these past two years. Even more critically, the MOU fails to demand…
“That’s not reflective of the conversations that I’ve had with him, but maybe he’s saying something to somebody else that he’s not saying to me,” Vance said of Netanyahu. “What I will say, and this does bother me, is that you’ve seen people within Bibi’s cabinet who have come out and attacked the deal, and…
Of course, Iran will, as the Islamic Republic always does, cheat and lie from the beginning of the implementation of the peace agreement, and will attempt to recover everything that it will have pledged to give up. The United States has already declared that it will retain heavy forces in the theatre in the near-term,…
“It’s doing a lot of the things that Trump criticized Obama for doing,” Christian Whiton, a State Department adviser in the George W. Bush and first Trump administrations, said of the president’s comments. “And whether or not he means it, he has expressed to them he will not resume military operations because doing so will…
“There are just lots of questions, and as the talks have gone on, it seems like the United States is walking back a lot of its initial demands,” Andrea Stricker, deputy director and research fellow in the nonproliferation and biodefense program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS.
EVIANS-LES-BAINS, FRANCE — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has seen the Iran peace deal brokered by the United States and calls it a “gamechanger” for how leaders could approach a peace process with Ukraine and Russia. Read More
“Likely on Friday, at a location to be determined … a new round of negotiations between Iran and the United States to reach a final agreement will begin,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. “In the final agreement, decisions will be made on the nuclear issues and the lifting of sanctions.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Evian-les-Bains in France for the G7 summit, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced an agreement had been reached to end the conflict in Iran. Trump announced the deal Sunday, adding that he authorized an end to the U.S. blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, but later…