President Trump said the ceasefire agreement he signed with Iran three weeks ago
is 'over', though what that means operationally is unclear. Trump, who warned
last month that a prolonged war would trigger an "economic disaster", remains
under political pressure to end the conflict. A Vance-led US team had been
tasked with securing technical concessions from Iran within 60 days to curb its
nuclear ambitions; negotiations have been slow and focused on implementing the
memorandum Trump signed on June 17 at Versailles. Mediators led by Pakistan and
Qatar are likely to try to salvage the deal. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu,
long skeptical of US-Iran diplomacy, could view Trump's remark as a pretext to
expand operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon or to strike inside Iran.
