Iran deal, wait what?
A 60-day deadline for Iran to make a nuclear deal as the threat of US force looms. President Donald Trump saying he hopes for a deal even as Tehran’s leadership talks tough, and as Israel pushes for more military action.
Sound familiar? While déjà vu is technically an illusion of the mind, the above has happened once before. It is both where the Middle East is today, and where it was in April 2025, in the weeks before the first Israeli strikes on Iran last year, and the US attack on its nuclear facilities. The past year may resemble a circle in US-Iranian relations back to the same place, but the trajectory has spiraled downwards, for the US and the region as a whole.
To recap: Trump wrote to then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, in March 2025, suggesting a two-month deadline to make a nuclear deal, or force could follow. by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN.com
America’s foreign entanglements in the Middle East primarily center on oil the maintaining a steady supply of that precious fossil fuel. Oil prices have hit the American consumer like a ton of bricks on top of sky high inflation for the past several years leaving many consumers barely hanging on. Therefore juicing the oil supply to bring down prices is of the upmost importance to save some sort of face heading in to the mid term elections.
