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 weekend the door opened. Iran sent three waves of missiles toward Israel. Israel struck back at launchers and petrochemical plants inside the Islamic
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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
A diplomatic breakthrough, cautious and unfinished, may be taking shape between Washington and Tehran. American and Iranian negotiators have agreed in principle to a sixty-day memorandum of understanding — a framework that
Something shifted in the air Thursday night in Beijing. President Trump stood in the Great Hall of the People and did something that required a certain nerve. He extended an invitation —
