LONDON: When President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, Barack Obama, who as his predecessor had forged the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, warned that doing so “without any Iranian violation of the deal is a serious mistake.” The US, Obama added, “could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East.” Eight years on, that predicted war, triggered by the surprise joint attack on Iran by the US and Israel on February 28, has now been fought and — temporarily, at least — halted.

US president hails accord as a major victory despite lingering questions, warns Tehran of renewed bombing if it fails to comply with terms.

US entered war with maximalist goals and exits it with pragmatic decision to end conflict despite political cost

Pragmatic settlement exposes limits of US leverage after brief, costly confrontation

Trump is touting his deal with Iran as a great success. But experts say the US moves into talks after three months of fighting with less leverage and more to lose

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Iran is reaping strategic and financial gains as a result of the agreement to end the war, pro- and anti-war voices agree

It is important to state the obvious lest we forget amid the news cycle tomorrow: Washington chose to fight an unnecessary war, and lost the war.

The US understanding with Iran manages to both speak volumes and yet say very little in the way of concrete details

US President Donald Trump jumbled his justification to launch the war on Iran, whose nuclear programme he claimed was already obliterated in a June 2025 attack.

The memorandum of understanding signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday to end the war on Iran has sparked comparisons to the 2015 deal signed by the Obama…

Hostilities between the US and Tehran now officially concluded but the 100 days of war and its aftermath have disrupted the world order in more ways than one.

‘We've now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, put enormous strain on our military,’ the former president warns

LONDON: When President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, Barack Obama, who as his predecessor had forged the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,…

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