Here’s hoping that Trump’s palpable hesitation about a renewed bombing of Iran prompts him to seek a genuine modus vivendi

The president wrote on social media that he was prepared to attack Iran but was persuaded not to by the United States’s Gulf allies.

As the US and Israel considers reigniting the bloody Iran war Trump is corned by political backlash and desperate for an off-ramp - whilst pushed inexorably back towards all-out…