Agreement. And 60 Days to Prevent the Next War

Originally published in Time

• Ali Vaez, Senior Adviser to the President & Project Director, Iran
• ICG

“Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday evening, while announcing a deal with Iran to end the war, which led to thousands of deaths and disrupted the global economy with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The agreement between the United States and Iran on Sunday, which is expected to be formally signed on Jun. 19 in Switzerland, should neither be dismissed nor overstated.

It is not a breakthrough in the grand sense of that word.

It does not reconcile the irreconcilable American and Iranian narratives, settle the nuclear dispute, or inaugurate a new regional order.

• The full article can be read on Time website.