The negotiations between the United States and Iran appear to have reached an impasse, and it’s not clear President Donald Trump has any easy options out of it.
The Iranian response to a recent U.S. proposal was “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,” Trump said on Sunday. And on Monday, he warned the fragile ceasefire between the two countries, which Iran violated several times last week, is on “life support.”
The ceasefire seemingly only blocks the U.S. from carrying out offensive operations in Iran and has not had an impact in the Strait of Hormuz — which has effectively become the new battlefield — even though it was the one condition connected to the ceasefire agreement initially.
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Aaron David Miller, a former longtime State Department Middle East official, told the Washington Examiner: “We really are at something that I would think right now is a strategic impasse. It’s a cul-de-sac, and I cannot imagine right now
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