All around the world, presidents, chancellors, and prime ministers have their heads in their hands as they try to process what Israel did last night. The Middle East has long been a powder keg held in check by fierce behind-the-scenes negotiations seeking to find common ground between old adversaries.
One of the most delicate ongoing negotiations relates to Iran, with the Trump administration spending the last weeks engaged in careful and precise debate about the future of Iranian nuclear weapons research. Trump himself sounded optimistic, saying just yesterday that discussions had been “very good” and that an agreement was “fairly close”.
