Last weekend was supposed to deliver a “deal” that ended the US-Iran war. It’s clear that Donald Trump had cleared the decks for a big signing ceremony – he skipped his son’s wedding, had Middle Eastern allies lined up for an Oval Office moment and had laid the groundwork in the press.
To say that Trump fell short of that goal would be a spectacular understatement. All that Trump has succeeded in delivering is more confusion, more delays and more mess.
It is evident that the White House thought it had some means of ending the conflict – but something has clearly gone very wrong in the days since. The US strikes on Iran targets overnight show a deal is far from clear – or even close.
Trump usually doesn’t struggle to act as his own hype man. He is more than capable of directing the media’s attention almost anywhere he wants it, not least because there is a whole Maga ecosystem that hangs on his every word.
But there are only so many times that even the friendliest outlet can repeat itself while claiming that what it’s saying is new. Trump has cried wolf on a deal to end this conflict – and to reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz – and almost everyone is sick of hearing it.
We are firmly in the “I’ll believe it when I see it” territory.
Even so, for a while it looked like it might be different this time. Major outlets reported that US allies in the region thought there was a tentative agreement in place. Oil prices dropped on the news, as traders hoped that long-delayed fuel supplies might resume.
But the early warning signs were that a deal might be less than it first appeared. The most obvious of these was that the US and Iran evidently did not agree on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme.
Trump has repeatedly briefed that a deal must include Iran agreeing to stop enrichment of nuclear fuel and the US has said that it must hand over its existing stockpiles. Iran, by contrast, has insisted that the war must end before talks on its nuclear programme can even start.
The reason that a breakthrough seemed imminent was that the US had reportedly backed down – and would delay nuclear talks until later. This would be a huge concession and an obvious win for Iran.
The problem was it rapidly became clear that – as has happened several times before in these peace talks – the US and Iran seem to have had very different ideas on what they were working towards. America briefed that Iran would be handing over its most enriched uranium immediately, which Iran quickly denied.
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