“The U.S.’s conflict against Iran looks set to drag on, possibly for months, with the sides unable to break a deadlock over the Strait of Hormuz and achieve a lasting ceasefire deal, according to several current and former officials from the U.S. Iran and Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
“The stark assessments from the people, who asked not to be named discussing sensitive matters, come with last month’s interim peace deal having collapsed.”
As his predecessors discovered, the easiest part of a war is starting it. Trump is now finding out that Iran gets a vote on when it ends.
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