May 25, 2026 — 7:30pm
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Washington: The temporary agreement that the Trump administration announced with Iran this weekend isn’t a peace deal. It isn’t a nuclear deal. It isn’t a missile deal.
Those may yet come – perhaps in a few months, though a senior US official said there was no agreed time limit for nuclear talks, or perhaps far longer if the history of negotiations with Iran holds. But for now, US President Donald Trump has emerged with an arrangement that could extend a ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, relieving the greatest energy disruption in modern times.
The best news from this at-the-brink negotiation between Washington and Tehran, mediated by a hardline Pakistani general, is that a conflict that easily could have spun further out of control appears to be de-escalating. Assuming both Trump and Iran’s supreme leader, in hiding to avoid assassination attempts, approve the final wording, the choke point through which a quarter of the world’s oil passes should reopen.
