It was less than 15 weeks ago when President Trump, at the height of his bravado about how the war with Iran would end, declared, “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.”
When the text of the deal intended to wind down the conflict was finally released on Wednesday, read aloud paragraph by paragraph by a senior administration official who stopped to defend each section, it read nothing like a surrender document. Instead, the Iranians emerged from a confrontation with the world’s most powerful military having not only survived but also having much to celebrate.
It starts with the resumption of Tehran’s ability to reap billions of dollars in oil sales, lifting pressure on the struggling regime even as negotiators prepare to begin haggling over a far more lengthy and critical document: the one Mr Trump insisted in an interview on Sunday will arrest Iran’s nuclear programme
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