President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting, at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 26, 2026.(Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
It’s unwise to invest too much emotional and intellectual energy in the selectively leaked terms of the deal that will supposedly end the conflict between the United States and Iran. It’s even more foolish to give undue credence to those leaks when they’re coming exclusively from the Iranian side of this equation.
But the president sure seemed excited about the deal’s prospects on Thursday afternoon. “We ended the war with Iran today,” Trump declared after abruptly calling off a new round of strikes on Iran that he’d previewed earlier that morning (having already called off ongoing strikes on Iranian targets mid-sortie ...
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