#diplomacy
10 posts tagged diplomacy.
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Trump's Iran deal: final determination, or final bluff?
Trump's Situation Room meeting to finalize an Iran nuclear framework collides with Tehran's denial — revealing a deal process built more on spectacle than on verifiable architecture.
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US-Iran truce: almost there, not quite
A tentative 60-day ceasefire extension with Iran sits on Trump's desk, but Vance's hedge reveals how fragile the architecture of this deal really is.
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America strikes Iran mid-ceasefire
Washington's decision to hit Iranian missile sites and mine-laying vessels during active peace talks exposes the profound incoherence at the heart of Trump's Middle East strategy.
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Trump's Iran deal and the hawks' veto
A 60-day Iran ceasefire framework is within reach, but Republican hawks and Trump's own impulsiveness may destroy the best diplomatic off-ramp since the Hormuz crisis began.
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Iran's deal: negotiated in public, undone in public
Trump's 'largely negotiated' Iran MOU offers a genuine off-ramp from a costly war, but his own social media impulsiveness may torpedo the diplomacy it took months to achieve.
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Iran nuclear talks: Rubio's slight progress problem
The Qatar-mediated Hormuz talks represent a genuine diplomatic opening, but the pattern of Iran extracting concessions during negotiations while maintaining leverage on the ground has a long and instructive history.
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Trump's Beijing triumph conceals Taiwan ambiguity
Trump returned from Beijing with Boeing orders and handshakes but no clarity on Taiwan, Iran, or chips — a diplomatic photo-op dressed as strategy.
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Iran's ceasefire collapses, and the diplomacy of maximalism
Trump's rejection of Iran's counter-proposal exposes the fundamental problem with wars of choice: ending them requires concessions that winning them does not.
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Two ceasefires, one war, and the V-Day calendar
Moscow's May 9 truce announcement and Kyiv's mocking response show how thoroughly the language of peace has been absorbed into the choreography of war.
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Iran's 14 points and the diplomacy of exhaustion
Tehran's peace proposal is a sign of genuine strain, not conversion — and the question is whether Washington can accept a bad peace that is nonetheless better than a good war.