Vice President JD Vance went on television Monday morning to say something remarkable: the United States and Iran have already signed a peace agreement ending three and a half months of war. Not will sign. Have signed. The signature, he told ABC’s Good Morning America, was digital — affixed over the weekend, ahead of a
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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
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
