The ceasefire agreement will bring needed relief to a scarred region, and to global energy markets. But it will not resolve the issues that brought America and Iran to war in the first place.
Donald Trump, who has long campaigned for his own Nobel Peace prize, has been forced to negotiate an outcome that he would not have envisaged back at the start of the conflict.
A peace deal, a birthday celebration and a UFC fight on the White House lawn, Donald Trump is once again proving that politics is as much about spectacle as it is about power.
President Donald Trump, who turned 80 today, has spent this evening hosting an Ultimate Fighting Championship event on the South Lawn of the White House.
Donald Trump has declared a US-Iran peace deal complete, announcing the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz just days before an official signing ceremony in Switzerland.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi says a memorandum of understanding with the US has ‘never been closer’ but warns against speculation over its contents.