Iran Publicly Rejects a Deal While Privately Asking for More Time

Commentary In the fog of the four-week-old U.S.–Israeli war with Iran, President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement on March 23 has injected fresh uncertainty. After threatening to “obliterate” Iranian power plants just days earlier unless the Strait of Hormuz was reopened, Trump declared “very good and productive conversations” with Tehran and ordered an initial pause on […]