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 understood. Tap, tap, tap. That was the noise of Iran, in his telling — not signing, not refusing, just tapping. And the President
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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
There are calls that change a war, and then there is the one President Trump placed to Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday — blunt, profane, and, by every account that has leaked since,
The deal, such as it was, is off. Iran has stopped talking. And it has begun to organize instead. On Monday, after Israel’s strikes on Beirut, Tehran pulled the plug on the
