The break in the escalation of tensions with Iran appears to be over
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The past four weeks have been calm, as far the Trump administration’s escalation of conflicts with foreign powers go. Since President Trump approved, then promptly cancelled, a strike on Iran on the evening of June 20 — military aircraft were in the air when Trump nixed the bombing, claiming it would have killed 150 people — it seemed the White House had forgotten about its simmering tensions in the Gulf, as it dealt with other crises.
Earlier in the day, at the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed how the two nations could ease tensions, while addressing that Tehran would not back down from its missile program while the U.S. supplies its enemies in the gulf with similar weapons. As the New York Times explains:
The proposal would accelerate what the nuclear accord envisions as a “transition day,” now scheduled for 2023. That is when Iran formally ratifies an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency to allow far more intrusive inspections of the country, including sites that Tehran has never declared as nuclear-related.
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