Yet, as Shishir Gupta stresses, this is no peace agreement; it is a 60?day breathing space to negotiate the real prize – a nuclear deal. Washington’s first military objective in this war was to neutralise Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile; without verifiable rollback on that front, he argues, the coming deal risks looking like “no deal” at all, no different from the JCPOA of 2015 that Trump tore up. The Strait of Hormuz, in this reading, was always a secondary objective for both the US and Israel, useful leverage but not the core strategic issue. That core has three layers… Iran’s…
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