The Analysis Notes That Reopening The Strait Of Hormuz Which Was Open Before Trump And Netanyahu Started The Conflict Is “No Great Achievement” Since It Simply Restores The Status Quo Ante Bellum, After A War That Cost An Estimated $30 Billion, Killed Thousands, And Destroyed Hundreds Of Millions In US Military Hardware
According to Sky News, the Iran “deal” reached this week is a tacit admission of strategic defeat by the Trump administration and a failure to achieve nearly all of Trump’s declared war aims. The US and Iran have agreed to stop fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but everything else has been kicked down the road over 60 days of ceasefire and beyond.
Sky News argues that since the Strait was open before the conflict began, reopening it “simply restores the status quo ante bellum” rather than representing any genuine achievement. On Iran’s nuclear programme specifically, the analysis states that the fate of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile and its enrichment project are still to be negotiated over the coming weeks, meaning the uranium remains in Iran, the enrichment programme can be reassembled, and no moratorium yet exists on further enrichment.
The piece notes the deal “achieves none of what Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal did,” and observes that Trump, who once accused Obama of handing Iran billions, may end up doing the same through the negotiations that follow this memorandum. Sky concludes that attacking Iran “turned out to be a massive miscalculation,” costing America’s global standing while potentially leaving Iran stronger.
To check out our previous coverage on the US-Iran war and its diplomatic resolution, read our articles here.
