Iran may have rejected President Donald Trump’s ceasefire, but that may make no difference, since Trump has boxed Iran in at the United Nations Security Council, which could adopt a ceasefire resolution this week.
On Monday evening, Trump announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire in what he called the “12 Day War.” That fit media reports of quiet overtures. Iran, however, refused to acknowledge an agreement.
Yet the fact that Trump made his announcement when he did — that is, ahead of possible Security Council meetings that could consider draft ceasefire resolutions — Trump may have boxed Iran into ending the war.
On Sunday, after the U.S. bombed Iran’s nuclear sites, the Security Council held an emergency meeting, and Russia and China
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