Trump is congratulating himself on being the first US president to have made peace with Iran since 1979.

Trump is congratulating himself on being the first US president to have made peace with Iran since 1979. That's wrong >>> He is the first to have taken America to war with Iran, and therefore the first to have needed a truce to stop one. The peace his predecessors sought and failed to achieve has yet to come None of this would be cause for criticism if the US was in a better negotiating position than it enjoyed before the start of hostilities. The fact that the Iranians are gloating, while Israelis are horrified, strongly suggests that isn't the case The eventual deal will have at least four requirements: • An end to all hostilities • Reopening the Strait of Hormuz • A restart of nuclear negotiations • The release of frozen Iranian funds Other parts of the draft are hard to credit, amounting to an Iranian wish list. Taken together it reflects that this war was — for the US, at least — a strategic folly that has left the Iranian regime wounded, but with more leverage than it had before The memorandum will likely be signed. But this is a ceasefire extension and an agreement on Hormuz, not a peace deal that would bring stability to the region. It is a mark of the war's failure