The thing about a deal is that both sides have to believe the same words mean the same thing. That is where this one stands now: in the gap between what Washington says it has and what Tehran says it agreed to. President Trump expressed frustration with Iran on Thursday after its Foreign Ministry said
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A president who once warned against touching Iran’s oil now wants all of it. President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the United States could soon seize Iran’s strategic Kharg Island oil hub,
There is a sound a negotiation makes when it has stopped being a negotiation. President Trump described it Wednesday from the Oval Office, and he described it twice, because he wanted it
The thing happened at night, which is how these things often happen. A pair of Apache helicopters was flying over the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow and consequential stretch of water where
For two months the cease-fire held, in the way these things hold in that part of the world — which is to say uneasily, with everyone watching the door. Then over the
