US-Iran peace deal hinges on shipping, sanctions relief and deferred nuclear talks (opens in new tab)

Agreement contains no restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missiles, nor does it call for regime change or surrenderThe basic structure of – a return to the prewar status quo – has been on offer from Iran for more than a month. So has the specific architecture: an immediate unwinding of the consequences of the US-Israeli war through the reopening of the strait of Hormuz and a deferral of the actual negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme, the ostensible cause of the war. The concept of a 60-day ...