Amid the on-off, stop-start torture of the US-Iran negotiations, the disastrous closure of the world’s premier shipping route for oil and fertiliser, and the threat of widening conflict across the region, there is one piece of good news.
The American mid-term elections will take place in November, and with his poll ratings continuing to drop, President Trump will be obliged to bring the conflict to a halt at some point, perhaps sooner rather than later.
Right now, with the US and Iran locked in standoff, the president declares he’s in no ‘rush’ to end the war.
Maybe. But he needs the price of oil
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