Alastair Crooke
Trump's Iran deal shatters Israel's 40-year dream of regime change.
The Iran-U.S. de-escalation framework has been signed. As always, getting a framework agreed is one thing, but preserving it from disruptive actors or malicious distortion of the text is quite another. Who knows how long it will survive intact ? The MoU nonetheless constitutes an important phase - albeit one leg - in a long journey ahead for Iran.