NEWS ANALYSIS. Although Donald Trump proclaimed 'victory,' the US in reality accepted a unilateral truce, while the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz remains unresolved. The objectives set by the American president for the upcoming negotiations remain unclear.

The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, in turn, declared victory and a "historic and crushing defeat" of the US and Israel