The Treaty
The Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi shipping in the Red Sea and vowed a siege-for-siege policy, just as Riyadh reportedly reroutes most of...
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The Treaty
"The object in war is to obtain a better peace," one scholar writes — "and a better peace has not been obtained." By his...
The Treaty
The US-Iran memorandum signed Monday isn't peace — it's a 60-day framework. And the biggest threat to it isn't at the table: Israel says...
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Washington says Hormuz is permanently toll-free. Iran says 60 days, then come the fees. Those positions can't both be true — and normally that...
The Treaty
Whatever gets signed in Switzerland on Friday, the war's most consequential outcome may be a conclusion forming in Tehran that no agreement can undo:...
The Treaty
Less than a day after President Trump declared the Iran war over and the deal "complete," Iranian state-affiliated media published what it says are...
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The deal fixes the crisis the Iran war created — Hormuz, the blockade — and barely touches the three problems Washington started with: nuclear,...
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Trump calls it a completed deal. Iran calls it a ceasefire opening 60 days of talks. They're describing the same document — and both...
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Buried at the end of Trump's announcement that the Iran war ends Sunday was a line that had nothing to do with the signing...
The Treaty
The plan was so secret the Pentagon's top general flew the Atlantic rather than discuss it on an encrypted line: send U.S. troops into...