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How Donald Trump’s war in Iran is failing the legitimacy test in the eyes of US voters (opens the original)
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Donald Trump now has a new proposed timetable for his war with Iran, albeit without a clear purpose. Heading to the Republicans’ midterm convention in Texas this week, the US president told reporters the war would end “immediately after the election”. This is coming from a president seven months into a conflict that he predicted would last only weeks. For all that time, the US has been jostling with Iran for military and strategic control over the Strait of Hormuz while seeking to further degrad
Why Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz after decades of holding back (opens the original)
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US forces have struck hundreds of Iranian targets – including in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas – over three consecutive nights in a bid by the US president, Donald Trump, to regain some modicum of control over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump has also inscribed the US as the “guardian” of the vital waterway. He has revived a naval blockade of Iranian ports and briefly demanded a 20% charge on all cargo passing through. His own secretary of state, Marco Rubio, had ruled out such a toll just t
Iran ceasefire was always going to break – here’s why (opens the original)
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Less than a month after a ceasefire was signed between the US and Iran, conflict has returned to the Middle East. The peace agreement Donald Trump signed at the palace of Versailles in France on June 18 – which he hailed as Iran’s “unconditional surrender” – is now, in the US president’s own words, “over”. I recently argued that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Washington and Tehran was best understood not as a peace agreement but as a “deferred crisis” – a ceasefire with a built-in
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